Veda Shastri
Veda Shastri is a Senior Producer at National Geographic in Washington D.C., and works on feature visual storytelling across digital platforms and immersive (XR) storytelling. She was earlier a staff video journalist and producer for The New York Times in New York. Among her projects, Veda has reported from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, deep pockets of rural India, inside a Black Hawk in Puerto Rico, and the lava fields of Iceland. She has won an Online Journalism Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Veda is also a documentary filmmaker who works on the themes of gender, history, memory and trauma. As an independent journalist and producer, she has worked on interactive documentaries and immersive storytelling for National Geographic Society, The World Bank, Yahoo News and PBS Frontline. In 2016, she directed and edited “Ladies Only,” a 30 min documentary about women taxi drivers in New Delhi in the backdrop of sexual harassment, and co-directed “Return to Chernobyl,” a VR documentary for PBS Frontline in 2017. Hailing from Boston, she earlier worked in New Delhi for five years producing television news at CNN-IBN. Veda has a BA in Anthropology from Tufts University and an MA in Journalism and Documentary Film from NYU.