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Krishna Sharma

Krishna Sharma is an audience engagement editor for the Baltimore Banner. He helps create and curate content on all social media platforms, with a special focus on TikTok. He aspires to collaborate with the Baltimore community to share digital content that helps, informs and inspires community members. Have any questions about Baltimore? DM or email me! And I'll try to find out. Krishna previously managed social media for Kaiser Health News. Before that, he earned his MS in ecology by studying butterfly migration. He then pivoted into journalism through the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, for which he wrote environmental science stories for the Miami Herald. He has expertise in reporting on science, and is also a published photographer and poet.

Latest content by Krishna Sharma

The onion pickles taste test

Dec 19, 2024

Raisin Bran, stubbornness and love are secrets to a long life for these centenarians

Tiaras sparkled atop gray hair as five centenarians sat down to celebrate their birthdays together. Minnie Styles, Sylvia Jones, and Lois Herron — all 102 — along with Odessa Bass, 104, and Elaine Jones, 105, parked their wheelchairs next to each other and posed for a photo.

Nov 30, 2024

8 steal-worthy white elephant gifts in Baltimore

Need a unique and affordable white elephant gift? Here are eight options.

Nov 18, 2024

A fan that is nineteen feet in diameter pushes the wind through the tunnel at The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel at University of Maryland.

A rare look inside UMD’s historic wind tunnel will blow you away

The Baltimore Banner photojournalist Kaitlin Newman and audience engagement editor Krishna Sharma were granted rare access to The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel at the University of Maryland. See how much wind they could withstand.

Jul 20, 2024

Soaking the feathers of a peregrine falcon discourages it from trying to fly away.

When falcons fall in Baltimore, this man comes to their rescue

A peregrine falcon fell from its nest in downtown Baltimore. Turns out, there's a man - dedicated to helping these fallen avians. And a USFWS program.

Jul 6, 2024

This is Stephen Varges's second year of rescuing fallen herons. Unfortunately, sometimes he finds some that are already deceased.

Why are birds falling out of trees in Fells Point?

Residents keep finding and rescuing young herons in this small urban park.

Jun 10, 2024

Soccer Without Borders is an international nonprofit headquartered in Baltimore.

Former Soccer Without Borders coach pleads guilty in child sexual abuse case

The nonprofit works with vulnerable youths in Baltimore. Authorities have charged a former coach in the organization with sexually abusing one of the students.

Jun 5, 2024

A bird's eye view of a city street, lined with trees and cars, with a blue thermoplastic line squiggling across the road as part of an art installation.

Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

Jan 6, 2024