Nitin Kumar Rathvi

Nitin, a B.com graduate, is pursuing a Master’s in Development Communication. Hailing from Ahmedabad, Gujarat he has experience in print media and does photography, cinematography, and video editing. In a four weeks internship, in Video Volunteers, Nitin was engaged in editing videos for IndiaUnheard and was working with the Training...

Sarthak Danda

Sarthak is currently pursuing PGD in Community Media from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He is an aspiring photographer and interested in examining how the art can be practiced to empower voices and lives. “My association with VV played a significant role in shaping my understanding of how...

Aparna Gopan

Aparna Gopan is a 22-year-old self-motivated journalist and the founder of “We, the Beasts” an emerging investigative media focusing on Solutions Journalism. At Video Volunteers, she explored news aspects of participatory community media, especially its sustained impact. “We, the Beasts” is my attempt to break the culture of paid news...

Emma Harris

Emma is a final-year student, doing Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, Denmark and Armenia on themes such as identity, sense of belonging and imagined communities and she is especially interested in visual anthropology. For the same, she has used...

Pooja Bhatt

Pooja Bhatt is a student of Community Media at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She strongly feels that community media is about for the people and by the people and this belief is what drew her to Video Volunteers. In the two months that Pooja volunteered here, she helped Stalin...

Abhishek Shah

Abhishek is a third-year journalism student with experience in theatre, film and design, from Mumbai. He’s interested in structures and networks of power that shape people’s experiences, interests and, often, ability. He looks to Video Volunteers as an organisation committed to the capacity of individuals to bring in change for...

Sayali Shankar

Sayali Shankar is pursuing M.A in Gender, Culture & Development Studies from Savitribai Phule College, Pune University. She is interning with Video Volunteers to understand the behind the scenes research that goes into making these Community Videos and how they play an important role. When Sayali watched the documentary “Hot...

Sandhya Marwada

Sandhya is pursuing her Masters degree in Development Communications from Centre for Development Communication (CDC), Ahmedabad- Gujarat. As a student of Development Communication she has a keen interest in learning about the issues of rural India which are never telecasted or discussed in the mainstream media. In her time at...