Fazil Khan

Columbia Journalism Investigations

Fazil Khan is a New York-based Indian data journalist who focuses on politics, health, agriculture, and climate. He was a 2021 postgraduate reporting fellow at the Columbia Journalism Investigations’ Global Migration Project. He is a 2021 graduate of the M.S. Data Journalism program at Columbia Journalism School and worked as a correspondent at CNN-News18 in New Delhi, India, before moving to New York for graduate school.

Schools are uniquely positioned to identify and support grieving children, but families and school staff say the system isn’t equipped to serve them.
Un nuevo análisis revela que los niños negros, hispanos y asiáticos en la ciudad tienen una probabilidad alrededor de tres veces mayor de haber perdido un padre o cuidador, en comparación con sus pares blancos.
Black, Hispanic and Asian children in the city are around three times more likely to have lost a parent or caregiver compared to their white peers, a new analysis reveals.