S8E9: News with Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz

Shatabdi Chakrabarti  is a freelance media professional based in India. She focuses on stories of wildlife, conservation, and communities. She has been a contributing photojournalist at We Animals for over three years, documenting stories covering topics such as wet markets, shrimp farming, and intensive hen and chicken farming. She also provides mentorship as part of our capacity-building work. As a filmmaker, photographer and writer, Shatabdi's work has been published and exhibited in both national and international platforms and events. She is a member of Her Wild Vision Initiative and has produced films, photo essays and articles for Vice, Mongabay, WWF-India, Round Glass Sustain and Nature in Focus, among others. Learn more about Shatabdi here.

Jessica Scott-Reid is a freelance journalist. She has been covering animal topics in major Canadian media outlets for the last decade, including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Winnipeg Free Press, and more. She is also the culture and disinformation correspondent for Sentient

Jan Dutkiewicz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. His research examines the design, production, circulation, and consumption of everyday commodities, with a primary focus on meat and other food products. He has worked on two major projects in this area. The first, Feed the People!, co-authored with Gabriel Rosenberg, is a book that envisions a more just and sustainable food system. The second is a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production. His research on these topics has also been published in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. He has also written about the politics of food systems for publications including WIRED, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal. Learn more about him on his website.