Rita Meher
Co-founder and Executive Director, Tasveer
<p>Rita Meher has been with Tasveer since its inception in March 2002. She was born and brought up in India, and lived in Japan for 4 years. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Odia, and Japanese. Before diving full-time into Tasveer in 2012, she was a video producer and editor. She has produced award-winning public television shows and made her career debut on TV in Japan in 1995. She edited the award-winning Bangladeshi documentary Threads and made her first short film, Citizenship101, based on her own immigrant experiences. Rita has been honored by Northwest Asian Weekly with the Seattle Globalist of the Year in 2015, Rising Star in 2015, and Community Voice in 2016. She's also been honored by the International Examiner with Excellence in Arts in 2016. Under her guidance, Tasveer was nominated for Seattle Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts in 2017. Her passion is to bring to light the stories of the South Asian Diaspora. </p>
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