Kasturi Ray is currently the senior news editor at The New Indian Express, Bhubaneswar. She served as the senior editor of the English digital platform of Odisha Television Limited for over three years. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, she has written for Firstpost and The Quint besides serving the Women’s Features Service and the Asian Age. A SAWM-UNICEF fellow for reporting on development journalism, she is a visiting faculty at the Birla Global University in Bhubaneswar, and has received the Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity (East) 2013–14 and Aryaa Awards for excellence in journalism 2016–17, among others.