Padmini Raghunath

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Padmini Raghunath is an award-winning journalist and audio producer. She works primarily on narrative series with an investigative bent. She’s helped produce "Bad Watchdog," a podcast from the Project on Government Oversight; "Silenced: The Radio Murders," a podcast from Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcast; and "Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race," an NEH-grant funded podcast season from the Science History Institute. Her print work has appeared in Outside, The Times of India, Distillations, Defector, Jezebel, and Next City, among other publications.

A school cafeteria or other large room crowded with elementary school kids of varying skin tones. The air above them is filled with confetti and many are clapping. Open mouths indicate cheering or yelling. At the back of the room are three adults, two clapping and one operating the confetti blower.

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Expanding the Mission: The Community Groups Serving Schools

November 19, 2024 | Padmini Raghunath

Some community development organizations have added education to their traditional focus on housing and economic development. By partnering with local school districts, they’re looking for ways to support families and children in their neighborhoods. How’s it working?

View from across the street of a row of six apartment buildings, all three stories, in varying brick shades. All have square patches of lawn in front and wrought-iron fences with gates. At far right is parked a silver sedan. There are no people in the photo.

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How It’s Working: Laws That Help Tenants and Nonprofits Buy Buildings

September 7, 2023 | Padmini Raghunath

Shelterforce checks in on three communities that have passed policies giving tenants and nonprofits first dibs on purchasing property. Are these policies keeping residents in their homes?