Karan Saxena
Audience Engagement Editor
Karan Saxena is an immigrant settler living on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territories. Karan is The Narwhal’s audience engagement editor, with a focus on the intersections of journalism and community-building. A recent graduate from UBC’s Master of Journalism program, Karan worked at 5X Press as an associate editor expanding the reach of the publication’s newsletter — something he is a nerd about — and was the audience engagement intern at Xtra Magazine in 2021. Karan finds it hard to shut up about French pop music, the fashion industry, the politics of climate change, environmental racism and Lorde.
Stories by Karan Saxena
Meet Kevin Ilango, The Narwhal’s first art and design fellow
8 min. readWe created the BIPOC art and design fellowship to create an opportunity in a field...
Conservation and … Wall Street? Behind a really big deal
A $375M Indigenous-led conservation effort in the Northwest Territories is a triumph of collaboration —...
As B.C. heads to the polls, what’s on the line?
The outcome of this weekend’s election will have national consequences for climate change and the...
‘Fighting, fighting, fighting’ downstream from Alberta’s oilsands
Residents of Fort Chipewyan shared, in their own words, the realities and fears that come...
A white-knuckle ride to visit a lonely caribou
Ontario reporter Emma McIntosh penned a love letter to the last remaining Lake Superior caribou...
Canada’s carbon price? It’s on thin ice
With multiple elections on the horizon, federal and provincial parties are battling it out over...
Going out of bounds in B.C.’s forests
A few mentions of unauthorized logging in a provincial database caught B.C. biodiversity reporter Ainslie...
A diet high in protein (but not quite as much as The Rock)
In this week’s newsletter, we look at Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s efforts to revitalize its ancestral diet...
Like the earth was breaking open
In this week’s newsletter, we look to the 10th anniversary of Canada’s worst mining waste...