Vandana is a communications and media person who wears various hats. Her skills include all aspects of film production, direction and editing as well as the distribution and marketing side of media. Currently she writes for UK's Arete Stories where she understands and crafts client specific stories for each brand. Vandana understands digital strategy from blogging and Wordpress management to social media strategy and online outreach. She worked on the Integrated Marketing Communications strategy for companies like Innovation Pavilion in Denver, Colorado and has done grant writing, fundraising, and project management for her own independent media projects. Vandana has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College- City University New York and a Masters in Mass communication from MCRC in New Delhi, India. She has worked for MTV, PBS and Fox in New York City and was awarded the PEO Peace Scholarship for two consecutive years. Vandana is the creator of The Taxi Takes, a web video project based on conversations inside taxis between drivers and passengers. The films have been screened at several International film festivals, received wide acclaim by the press, and also won the Festival Art deco de Cinema’s Best Documentary prize in 2011. She was the recipient of the Davis Peace Project grant in 2008 and the Commonwealth Vision Award in 2004.