Kalpana Bhattarai is a freelance investigative journalist based in Kathmandu. She covers issues related to public service and interest, resource embezzlement, issues of violence, abuse, and illegal extraction. Working as a journalist for more than a decade now, she holds a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Purvanchal University. She has previously attended investigative journalism training organized by Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK, and also participated in Cross-border Human Trafficking Journalism Fellowship from Impulse Press Lab India. She has completed her Investigative Reporting Fellowship at Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN).