Sriyanka Ray
producer, journalist, and Director in Brooklyn, New York
Sriyanka Ray is a Brooklyn based Indian Video Journalist, Storyteller and Producer of social issue content (documentary, live-event, impact campaigns, partnerships) She covers race, inequality, youth issues and the criminal justice system. Much of her work has been at the intersection of journalism, film and social change.
She helped create and develop BRIC TV's #BHeard strand of public affairs programming where she currently works as a Senior Producer making original character-driven journalistic documentaries on social issues.
In 2016 she directed and produced the documentary The Sweatshop Of Wall Street in which she worked with two whistleblowers to investigate the corrupt workings of a direct sales and marketing company in NYC. The piece was a finalist in the Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist in North America category at the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association Awards.
Sriyanka also has extensive experience in producing live events, supporting and partnering with community organizations and non-profits while also managing high profile media partnerships. She is the Program Manager of #BHeardAmplified, a community engagement initiative supported by grants received from Lincoln Center’s Cultural Innovation Fund and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art’s Building Bridges Program.
Her films have broadcasted on U.S. public television, selected at prestigious festivals like Social Justice Film Festival and earned her eight NY Emmy® nominations among other accolades. In 2018, Sriyanka and her team won a NY Emmy Award in the Education/Schools: Program/Special Category for their town hall on school segregation in New York City.
Sriyanka also mentors young filmmakers and has led numerous youth filmmaking workshops. She instructed CUNY graduate school students in creating 360 video and has been invited to lead workshops/ guest lecture at CUNY Journalism School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
She got her M.A in Media Studies from The New School, New York City but she grew up in Kolkata, India where she got her B.A in English Literature from the prestigious Presidency College. She is a proud Bengali and she loves cricket.
Sriyanka is interested in race, criminal justice, conflict, South Asian politics, human rights, interactive storytelling, media and memory and new media's relationship with journalism.