Teresa Rehman is an award -winning journalist based in North-east India. She has worked for years toward bringing the different facets of the region, its diversity and distinct ethos to mainstream media.

Teresa's work in journalism spans through India Today, Telegraph,Tehelka, and Reuters. She has managed to bring in the gender perspective to her stories. A recipient of the WASH Media Awards 2009- 2010, Teresa also won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for two consecutive years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 for the category: Reporting on J&K and the North-east. Her keen eye for the gender angle showed through stories. And she bagged honors such as Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity 2011, Sanskriti Award 2009 for Excellence in Journalism and the Seventh Sarojini Naidu Prize 2007 for Best Reporting on Panchayati Raj by Hunger Project. She is known for her unassuming persistence on getting the details, and sensitivity. She was featured in the Power List of Femina magazine in 2012. She has written a clutch of books, The Mothers of Manipur (Zubaan Books) and Bulletproof (Penguin Random House India) are among them.