Awards

FILM FESTIVAL LAURELS

For the short film A Little Extra

Best Super Short Movie, Prague Actors And Filmmakers Film Festival, 2025
Best Short Film, Sweden Film Awards, 2025
Best Micro Short Film, Triloka International Filmfare Awards, India, 2025
Best Super Short Film, Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden, 2025
Best Micro Short Film, Mokkho International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film Under 5 Minutes, [Story.Land] International Short Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2025
Best Debut Short Film, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film, Crown Wood International Film Festival, India 2025
Honorable Mention, Absurd Film Festival, Italy, 2025
Honorable Mention, 512 ATX Short Film Festival, USA, 2025
Honorable Mention, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival, Greece, 2025
Nominated for Best Micro Film (up 3 minutes), Digital Griffix film awards, Canada, 2025
Nominated for Best International Short Film, Nanocon International Film Festival, US, 2025
Nominated for Best Super Short Film (under 5 minutes), Cambridge Short Film Festival, UK, 2025
Finalist, Short Way International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2025
Finalist, Best Super Short Film, Luleå International Film Festival, Sweden, 2025
Official Selection, Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival, Ireland, 2025
Official Selection, The InterCultural Voices Film Festival, USA, 2025
Official Selection, New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, USA, 2025
Official Selection, Pune Short Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Short Movie Club Film Festival "Nefiltravanae kino", Poland, 2025
Official Selection, Golden Short Film Festival, Italy, 2025
Official Selection, The Bridgeport Film Fest, USA, 2025
Official Selection, Mystic Film Festival, USA, 2025
Official Selection, Nordic Star Festival, Sweden, 2025
Official Selection, Zambia Short Film Festival, 2025
Official Selection, Houston's Short Short Short Film Festival, USA, 2025

FILM FESTIVAL LAURELS

For the short film A Small Favor

Best International Short Film, Tamizchagam International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film, Mokkho International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, India 2025
Best International Short Film, Kollywood International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film, Rameshwaram International Film Festival, India, 2025
Semi Finalist, International Moving Film Festival, Mexico, 2025
Official Selection, DC South Asian Film Festival, USA, 2025
Official Selection, International Kolkata Short Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Cinemaking International Film Festival, Bangladesh, 2025
Official Selection, Indian Independent Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Art is Alive Film Festival, USA, 2025

FILM FESTIVAL LAURELS

For the short film Single Use

Best Animated Short Film, Athvikvaruni International Film Festival, India, 2025
Honorable Mention, Indian Movie Awards, 2025
Honorable Mention, Short Shot Festival, Russia, 2026
Honorable Mention, Indo Dubai International Film Festival, UAE
Official Selection, Thilsri International Film Festival, India
Official Selection, Pulse of Animation Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2025
Official Selection, Bali International AI Film Festival, Indonesia, 2025
Official Selection, Asian Talent International Film Festival, India 2025

HONORS

Long listed, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017

Award for excellence in Tuberculosis Reporting Reach Lily-MDR-TB media partnership, India 2013

Recognized as one of 25 Young Leaders under 30 by McGill University, Canada 2012

Honored as 100 Young Leaders under 30, Women Deliver, New York, NY, 2013

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Project Director: Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the “World’s Borough “Queens | $150,000 | National Endowment of Humanities | 2025-2026

Co-Director: Multigenerational Engaged Storytelling: Boundary Crossing and Historical Memory |$45,000 | City University of New York Interdisciplinary Research Grant | 2024

Principal Investigator:| The argument for meaningful news | PSC-City University of New York |$3,500 | 2024

Principal Investigator: Journalism Handbook Open Education Resources | $12,000 | City University of New York | 2024-2025

Principal Investigator: Open Educational Resources for English First Year Seminar| $11,500 | City University of New York | 2023-2024

Summer Institute, NEH Funded Border Waters City University of New York, 2023

EDIT Awards for Creative Projects, LaGuardia Community College, 2025

EDIT Awards for Creative Projects, LaGuardia Community College, 2024

Summer Institute, CITA Experiential Learning, City University of New York, 2022

Voicing Poverty Humanities Fellowship, 2021, NEH-Funded. BMCC, City University of New York

Reading and Writing, MLA Summer Teaching Institute, 2021, Columbia University

Summer Institute: Mass Incarceration, 2021, NEH-Funded, LaGuardia Community College

Fellow, Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability, Columbia University, NY | 2012

Media Fellow, Investigated the rise of drug-resistant Tuberculosis, The Union for Lung Diseases, India | 2013

Media Fellow, Reported on fragile ecosystems in India, The Center for Science & Environment, India | 2013

Travel Grant, Covered River gypsies in Bangladesh, European Journalism Center, The Netherlands | 2012

Research Fellow, Documented stories of forgiveness and atonement, Metta Center for Nonviolence, CA | 2012