Nivedita Das is a South Asian independent documentary film producer and social impact advisor with over 20 years of experience across sectors. She currently serves as Director of Advocacy and Impact at Brown Girls Doc Mafia, a community and an initiative advocating for over 5,000 women and non-binary creatives and executives of color working in the documentary film industry around the world. Brown Girls Doc Mafia seeks to disrupt inequality in the film industry and invest in creatives of color through advocacy work, community building, grantmaking initiatives, and creative and professional development programs.Prior to this, she founded the award-winning independent production house, The Monsoon Diaries, and served as Executive Director of CatManDew Co-labs, an incubator for South Asian digital artists based in Nepal. In addition, Nive has worked as an advisor in the education, research, advocacy, technology, art, and cultural heritage sectors for diverse global organizations such as USAID, the Academy for Educational Development, FHI 360, Qatar Foundation, & Qatar Museums. She is a member of the Asian American Documentary Association, a 2018 Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival Scholar, a 2020 Docs In Progress Fellow. She currently splits her time between Washington, D.C., and Pune, India.