Ankur Paliwal joined a few dozen UCSF student during Synapse’s the fifth annual science speaker series on April 13. He’s an independent journalist who writes about science, inequity and LGBTQIA+ persons, and has reported from India, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Germany and the United States for various international media outlets such as Nature, Scientific American, Undark and the Guardian. He is also the senior editor with the Asian Scientist Magazine which focuses on science and scientists in Asia.