SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Project management experience across multiple timezones and languages
- Ability to write and produce for varying audiences from reports and social media to 360 video
- Over seven years of experience creating written, audio, photograph, video content covering news, immigration, migration and gender issues in the U.S., South Asia and Europe
- Over eight years of experience conducting journalism trainings for youth and professionals
WORK & MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Tiny World Productions, Co-founder (May 2016-present)
Storyhunter Studio for Verizon Media Group, In The Know, Senior Producer (January-December, 2019)
Fusion Media, Digital Producer, Oakland, Calif. (July 2016-April 2018)
Berkeley Advanced Media Institute, Trainer, 3-day workshops (January 2017-2019)
AJ+ (Al Jazeera), Engagement Producer, Fill in producer, San Francisco, Calif. (January 2015-July 2016)
KQED, Producer, Arts Contributor San Francisco, Calif. (January 2015-September 2016)
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Lecturer, Berkeley, Calif. (Summer 2016, 2018-present)
National Student Leadership Conference, Journalism & Mass Communication, Program Director, Washington DC (2005-2011)
Navdanya, Research Associate, Biodiversity Farm Village Ramgarh, Uttarakhand India (September-December 2010)
IndiCorps, Director of Media & Communications, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (August 2009-May 2010)
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism, New Media; Berkeley, CA (May 2016)
Aarhus University & Danish School of Media
Erasmus Mundus Journalism, Media & Globalization; Aarhus, Denmark (September 2012 – February 2013)
Pitzer College
Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Global Communication Studies, Minor in Studio Art; Claremont, CA (May 2007)
University of Botswana
Pitzer College in Botswana: “Media, Culture and Gender”; Gaborone, Botswana (January – June 2005)
AWARDS/PRESENTATIONS
- Visualizing the Future of Storytelling: How Technology Can Make or Break a Story, ONA New Orleans, 2019
- Journalist in Residency, Minnesota Street Project, 2019
- New Journalism II, Faber Residency, Olot Spain, 2018
- Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Recipient, Die Zeit Online, KCRW Berlin; Berlin, 2018
- Ethics in VR, SXSW, Austin, 2018
- Participant, VR Creator Lab, Youtube Space Los Angeles, 2017
- Speaker: VR on a Shoestring Budget, ONA, Washington DC, 2017
- Oculus Launch Pad Grant Recipient, 2016
- Quick Guide to Your Basic 360 / VR Toolkit, ONA, Denver, 2016
- Investigating realities: Approaches to reporting, production, and development with VR, IRE New Orleans, 2016
- Honorable Mention, Palo Alto Media Center Award for short film, “Women of Mandakini Valley,” 2011
- Fulbright Fellow, Hamburg, 2008-2009
SKILLS
Advanced German; Intermediate Hindi; Beginning Malayalam, Czech; Proficiency in Microsoft Office; Adobe Suite, Autopano Video Giga (Kolor). Experience with research tools including JSTOR, Lexis Nexis and Refworks.
