Natalie Mayroth she/her

Natalie Mayroth is a German-Iranian journalist who works in Germany and South Asia, particularly India. She is a member of "Neue Deutsche Medienmacher*innen", a network of media professionals with and without a migration history and is currently chairwoman of the Indo-German Media Network (IGMN). Natalie Mayroth went abroad after completing her Magister (M.A.) in European Ethnology, Sociology and Iranian Studies at the LMU in Munich. As part of the Bosch Foundation's Media Ambassador Programme, she travelled first to China and then to India. Various organisations have supported her journalistic research, including the University of Tübingen, the European Journalism Centre (EJC), the Sir Hugh Carleton Greene Foundation, taz foundation, the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (New York) and Netzwerk Recherche. In a previous life, she was a blogger and worked for re:publica. At #rp24 she curated the India programme and is happy to be back for #rp25!