Megha Mohan

About

Megha Mohan is a British journalist and the BBC’s first global gender and identity correspondent, a role she took on in 2018. She reports on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ communities, race, and ethnicity for BBC audiences around the world. Her investigative journalism has explored subjects ranging from access to abortion medication in Honduras to gender roles in North Korea and the global industry surrounding romantic relationships. In 2023, she travelled with Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, and Melinda French Gates for a BBC World Service documentary examining child marriage in Malawi. Mohan was named among Progress 1000’s most influential storytellers and has advised on guidelines for reporting sensitively on domestic violence. She is also the co-founder of Second Source, a network supporting women journalists from underrepresented backgrounds. In Herlands, she combines her journalistic experience with personal family history to investigate women’s communities and alternative models of social organization.