My name is Shaanth Kodialam Nanguneri, and I'm a California-based journalist with a focus on education, inequality, and transnational issues of power. My reporting has taken me from the halls of Sacramento's legislature to the House of Representatives in DC. Most recently, I was an intern at CalMatters for Summer 2024, focusing on the justice system, mental health, and health care.

Recent Work by me:

Davis library staff ousted speaker for anti-trans comments. Did they break the law?

The Sacramento Bee

UC rejects plan to hire undocumented students, halts consideration for year

The Daily Bruin

If Californians vote to ban slavery, will prisoners earn minimum wage?

CalMatters

The Struggle to Save Berkeley's People's Park

The Nation

This ecologist's circle alleges collective punishment. Her critics call such claims 'one-sided.'

The Bruin

Could a fight over caste derail a Sikh lawmaker's bill to protect immigrant activists?

CalMatters

From reporting on in-home caregivers in August 2023, The Sacramento Bee.
Protests in Irvine, California amid the overturning of Roe. v. Wade in 2022, The Orange County Register.