Neenma Ebeledike
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Neenma Ebeledike is a multimedia journalist who works to amplify the voices of marginalized communities. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.
Currently a California Local News fellow, she works as a multimedia journalist at The Sacramento Observer.
Ebeledike focuses on storytelling that highlights social justice issues, environmental challenges, and cultural resilience. In Nigeria, she produced the show Made in Naija and a documentary on period poverty.
After moving to the U.S., she continued her work with projects that included a documentary on Rosie the Riveter and a short documentary exploring the decline of salmon populations in the Bay Area.
Ebeledike’s bylines can be found in the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Observer, the Napa Valley Register, Richmond Confidential, Mission Local, CapRadio, and the East Bay Times, among others.
Her work has earned her the Ida B. Wells Investigative Reporting Fellowship. Her thesis film, the Pulitzer Center-supported Allensworth Rising: A Fight for Water, explores environmental injustices in Allensworth, California.
