Abid R Baba

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Home Town: Baramulla, Jammu & Kashmir

Education: Bachelors in Media Studies, University of Kashmir, Master of Social Work(MSW)

Specific Field Interests: Gender, Disability Rights, Conflict Resolution, Climate Change, Social Justice

Placement: Youth4Jobs Foundation, Hyderabad, Telangana

Area of Focus: The Project aims to support the organization's social impact work through proactive communications and storytelling around sustainable livelihoods of "persons with disabilities" post training.

Fellowship Project: Education, Disability

Highlights: Abid was associated with the Srinagar station of All India Radio from 2012-2018 with over 100 audio segments to his credit. His stories were shortlisted as Asia's top three submissions in 2020, 2021 and 2022 by AIPS Sports Media Awards. In 2017, He worked as a Research Assistant with J&K's first and only female Chief Minister in the public relations division of the Government Grievance Cell. In 2019, Abid worked as a research associate with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). In 2020, he was a climate change Media Fellow with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and he was the first awardee of the Narender Revelli National Media Fellowship. He also went on to receive a grant from Columbia University, the US. Abid is passionate about and works at the intersection of inter-faith harmony, good politics, quality education, and digital rights. He has represented India in three International conferences on Peace, Conflict and Violence. Interested in community building, Abid has been volunteering with a US-based NGO called Kashmir Education Initiative since March 2020.