Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Producer / Where We LiveSujata Srinivasan is a Senior Producer for Where We Live, the flagship news-based, call-in talk show from Connecticut Public Radio, featuring deep dives at the intersection of data-driven narrative and investigative longform journalism.
An award-winning journalist with over 20 plus years of reporting and editorial experience for print, online, television, and radio outlets in the U.S. and abroad – including four years as Business Reporter for Connecticut Public Radio – Sujata specializes in Business and Health, and is passionate about economic and health inequity, corporate accountability, sustainability, innovation culture, workplace gender equity, the economics and ethics of consumption, policy impact on industry, and the human condition.
She was previously an independent U.S. correspondent for the Indian edition of Forbes, editor of Connecticut Business Magazine, Connecticut correspondent for Crain’s Business, longtime independent contributor to the Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal, contributing editor to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, senior financial editor supporting the Chicago investment firm Thomas White International, and instructor of economics at Saint Joseph University, among others. She continues to report independently for the women-founded nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team.
Prior to that, Sujata was the interim bureau chief of CNBC-TV 18 in Chennai, India, tasked with expanding her bureau and set to be promoted to Bureau Chief, when she chose to follow her heart and get married to her husband, and relocate to the U.S. to be with him. She is the mother of a child made of sunshine, curiosity, mischief, and love. She also mothers her rescue dog Panju Muttai (Cotton Candy), who is made of stubbornness, tail power, and love.
Sujata has a Master’s in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford; a Post Graduate Diploma (Hons) from the Times School of Journalism, New Delhi; and a Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Madras, Chennai.
Got an idea for a show? Email her at ssrinivasan@ctpublic.org
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This hour on Where We Live, what are some triggers, coping mechanisms, and treatment options available to treat women with alcohol use disorder? -
Rates of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in youth under 20 have surged in the U.S. In this hour on Where We Live, we discuss trends, technologies, disparities, access, and outcomes for youth living with diabetes.
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This hour on Where We Live, a look at climate change and health. Physicians turned climate activists see worsening asthma, COPD, and seasonal shifts in vector-borne diseases, plus higher ER visits for heat stress.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared children’s mental health a national emergency. This hour on Where We Live, a look at how the crisis is impacting Connecticut’s children and health workers.
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This hour on Where We Live, Lucy talks with Stamford mayoral candidate Bobby Valentine. The baseball legend has recently been criticized for comments made about Stamford renters and voters.
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This hour on Where We Live, a conversation with Stamford Democratic mayoral candidate Caroline Simmons. Simmons is running against unaffiliated baseball legend Bobby Valentine.
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Adam Harris, the author of The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal — And How To Set Them Right, documents ill-fated attempts to establish institutions of learning for African-Americans against the tide of public and legislative opposition.
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What role do medical institutions play in narrowing the gender bias? How much of the onus is on women physicians, and how close are we, as a society, to removing barriers to women at the workplace?
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Jacqueline Rabe Thomas of Connecticut Public’s investigative unit joins Where We Live to talk about her recent report that the state’s largest teachers’ union claimed that each year, more educators were filing workers' compensation cases related to air quality issues in their schools.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at cancer disparities among communities of color: Incidence and mortality rates, barriers to screening, and access to treatment.
