Riddhi Trivedi-St Clair

Storyteller, First

I began my career as the youngest reporter — and first woman on the sports desk — at The Times of India, before moving into daily journalism covering education, health, and social justice at The Indian Express, where my reporting on child labor earned the Overseas Press Club of America's Stan Swinton International Journalism Award.

I came to the U.S. to pursue an M.A. in Journalism at Indiana University. I spent more than a decade as a business reporter covering beats from agriculture and commercial fishing for The Daily Iberian, to residential and commercial real estate, urban revival and economic redevelopment, and publicly traded companies for Naples Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I won the Louisiana Press Association’s Best Feature Story award and was selected for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Fellowship, in addition to having my stories frequently picked up and syndicated by national newswires including the Associated Press.

“I got into journalism because of the same lofty ideals that so many of us do. … It's the challenge, the thrill of uncovering things other people didn't know, and you can tell them about.” As quoted in IU School of Journalism, NEWSwire, Fall/Winter 2004–05

Reporting across different beats, in different cities, states, and even countries, taught me to move fast: to walk into unfamiliar subject matter, a new place, a new industry, and get conversant enough, quickly enough, to ask the right questions and get the story right.

Corporate and Executive Communications Leader

I carry that reporter's instinct — finding the real story inside complicated material, and protecting its accuracy under pressure — through the last two decades of corporate and executive communications leadership.

That leadership has spanned building communications functions from the ground up — standing up RxBenefits' first in-house team and developing a brand editorial operation, and leading strategic communications for Eon and helping define the brand narrative — as well as leading corporate narrative and executive messaging through major announcements and launches at publicly traded companies including Vir Biotechnology, and across CVS Health's $72 billion specialty pharmacy and PBM business.

I have also ghostwritten and placed executive bylines in Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Fierce Healthcare, Modern Healthcare, and other national and trade press; built strategic communications plans for proactive initiatives as well crisis, change, and M&A moments; and served as company spokesperson through major workforce transitions.

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