Sonal Gupta

Sonal Gupta is an Indian-born, Vancouver-based journalist and documentary producer focusing on climate, Indigenous and marginalized communities, public health and social justice. She holds a Master’s in Journalism from the University of British Columbia and trained in documentary film in Los Angeles.

Sonal is currently a reporter covering the Indigenous beat for Canada’s National Observer. Her work has also appeared in The Tyee, Mongabay, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveller and other regional and national outlets.

She co-authored the Empowerment Journalism Guide, which won a Gold Anthem Award in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Her work has also earned the 2022 Jack Webster Student Journalism Award, the Gold Award for Best Academic Video Content at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards, and a finalist nod for the 2023 Canadian Association of Journalists Student Award of Excellence for her mini-documentary The Artist Motel in The Tyee.

She was a 2025 fellow with the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (Montana) and part of the first cohort of Story Money Impact’s Empowering BC Creators for Community program. She is currently finishing a documentary in collaboration with the Birth Place Lab at UBC exploring perinatal disparities in marginalized communities and community-informed care solutions.