Nikhil Eapen
Nikhil Eapen (2022) is a journalist and migrant-worker-rights researcher based in India. He has over 10 years of interdisciplinary experience in investigative journalism, human rights research, advocacy and activism. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Caravan, The Hindu, The Wire and Scroll.in, among other leading national and international publications. Nikhil is the author of several landmark human rights reports on the construction sector, responsible labor recruitment practices, forced labor and human trafficking of migrant workers in the Middle East. He was part of the South Asia Speaks fellowship in 2021, a literary mentorship program for early career writers from the Indian subcontinent.
During his Logan Nonfiction fellowship, Nikhil will be working on a nonfiction book about the biodiversity crisis in South Asia told through the story of the near-extinction of Gyps vultures in the Indian sub-continent.