Tanvi Misra is an award-winning magazine writer and investigative journalist primarily covering immigration and justice issues. Her work has appeared in New York, The Nation, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Politico, The Baffler, Lux, The High Country News, New Republic, The Verge, Jewish Currents, Harper’s Bazaar, Bloomberg CityLab, Roll Call, Teen Vogue, NPR, and other outlets. Tanvi was the 2022-23 Ida B. Wells fellow at Type Investigations. She won the 2022 Ira A. Lipman fellowship at Columbia University and a Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grant in 2023. In 2024, She was given the Lando “Writer of Note” award by the de Groot Foundation.
She teaches writing and reporting at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism.
The question is less what Zohran Mamdani symbolizes for New York’s immigrant communities than what benefits he might deliver for them.
Dozens of Bhutanese men have been deported to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.