For over a decade, she has been covering issues of environmental justice and human rights in the subcontinent. She has won the Young Environment Journalist Award 2011, best-published articles on ‘reporting on the fate of victims of armed violence’ organized by the Press Institute of India and the International Committee of the Red Cross 2012 and Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change, 2013. In 2017, she won the Kurt Schork Memorial Award 2017 for International Journalism. Soma has completed three fellowships, co-written a book and written a movie script. She also teaches journalism.