Scaachi Koul

Scaachi Koul (born in Calgary February 7, 1991) is a culture writer at Buzzfeed Canada. She is the author of a book of essays 'One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter.' Koul attended the journalism school at Ryerson University. Before Buzzfeed, Scaachi worked at Penguin Random House Canada, the acquiring publisher of 'One Day'. Before that she was an intern at Maclean's Magazine and The Huffington Post. Her journalism has appeared in Flare, The Huffington Post (Canada), The Thought Catalog, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, and other sites. 2Controversy and Harassment On 1 November 2015 Koul was an opinion panelist on CBC News alongside Jon Kay and Tasha Kheiriddin. The topic of the panel was the diversity of Justin Trudeau's cabinet picks. The panel was moderated by CBC presenter Wendy Mesley. While purportedly about gender balance, the panel was attacked in social media for not adequately speaking to racial diversity in government. At Buzzfeed Koul later wrote about the reaction and the resulting harassment she receive