The Diversity of Me; Keeping It Real

Minreet - Award-Winning Freelance Journalist

Episode Summary

Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.

Episode Notes

Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.

Minreet has written for the independent, BBC, Sky, Stylist, Byline Times, Metro, iPaper, Guardian and Al Jazeera. She has also reported for The One Show, Newsround, Sunday Morning Live, BBC South and Sky News.

Her work focuses on improving the representation of South Asian communities and she has written features, opinion and news pieces.

Her x3 KIRs are 👇🏼

1️⃣ Friends & Family

2️⃣ Faith

3️⃣ Swimming & Running

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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