Jeevan Ravindran is a freelance journalist in London and Sri Lanka.
Jeevan Ravindran is a human rights journalist and researcher. She has worked extensively with Reuters, CNN and the BBC. She has also worked as a freelance journalist in Sri Lanka, collaborating with Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, CBC, ABC, VICE and New Lines Magazine, among others.
She has experience working with text, video and radio. Having graduated in French and Spanish from the University of Oxford, she now focuses on human rights and social justice issues in her work. Her work has been featured in publications such as BBC World, CNN, Reuters, The Guardian, VICE, ELLE UK, World Politics Review, Gal-Dem, Huck Magazine and Popula.
As a broadcast journalist, she has worked with Thomson Reuters in Paris and Madrid, covering stories such as the Notre-Dame cathedral fire, the European elections, Spanish flash floods, and the Football World Cup. She has also worked extensively with the digital news team at CNN and Insider Inc., as well as freelancing. From July 2021 to May 2022, she hosted her own fortnightly radio show on BBC Asian Network.
She has also worked extensively with non-profit organisations, including as a street fundraiser for Amnesty International in the summer of 2018, when she was the highest-performing fundraiser of the month. She ran the human rights youth group at her school and went on to chair the official homelessness campaign at the University of Oxford. She continues to seek pro bono and part-time opportunities in the charity sector.
