Tenzin Pema is a journalist of Tibetan origin with over two decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and newsroom leader in global media firms. She was most recently a 2025-2026 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied new tools and frameworks to show the full scale of authoritarian attempts to erase Tibetan identity. Prior to that, Tenzin was the Director of Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan Service, where she led critical and sensitive reporting on Tibet across multiple formats and platforms, including groundbreaking coverage of the Dege dam protests in 2024 that led to mass arrests. Previously, Tenzin was Editor of Strategic Initiatives at Economic Times and Editorial Head at YourStory Media. She spent a decade at Reuters, where she was an Editor-in-Charge of teams covering different regions. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in India.