Deepa is an award-winning journalist, who is the host of Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM. Since 2003, Deepa has anchored most of the major national broadcasts for the Pacifica Network, including election year events, Supreme Court nomination hearings and major congressional investigations. Deepa is the author of Targeted, Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration, where she writes about immigration policy and history, published by Seven Stories Press in December 2006. Deepa is also a Puffin Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute. Her writings have appeared in the Village Voice, the Nation Magazine and Mother Jones magazine, among many others. She has an MA from Columbia University.
