Sriyanka Ray is an award winning Indian video journalist, storyteller and producer of social issue content (documentary, live-event, television, 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.
Her documentaries have earned her eight New York Emmy® nominations and her investigative film The Sweatshop Of Wall Street was a finalist in the Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist in North America category at the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association Awards. She was a producer on the team that won a 2018 NY Emmy® in the Education/School Program Category for Class Divide: Breaking the Pattern of School Segregation.
Sriyanka also has extensive experience in producing television, live events, fundraising, developing programming as well as managing high profile media partnerships and grants.
Most recently, she developed and managed #BHeardAmplified, a community engagement and media education initiative supported by grants received from The National Endowment for the Arts, Lincoln Center’s Cultural Innovation Fund and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art’s Building Bridges Program.
Sriyanka mentors young filmmakers and has instructed numerous media workshops across New York City. She led CUNY graduate students in creating 360 video and has been invited to conduct classes as a guest speaker at educational institutions like CUNY Journalism Graduate School, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The New School.
She got her M.A in Media Studies from The New School, New York City and she her B.A in English Literature from the prestigious Presidency College in Kolkata, India.
She is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
