# Suhana Sanyal

> Socio-Technical Designer & Creative Technologist, based in Kolkata, India, working globally. I help climate and gender-equity organisations turn fieldwork into films, tools and briefs that change decisions.

## Contact
- Email: hello@suhanasanyal.com
- Website: https://suhanasanyal.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhana-sanyal-04876a1ab/
- Writing: https://sites.google.com/view/suhana-sanyal/about-me/articles
- CV (PDF): https://suhanasanyal.com/cv/suhana-sanyal-cv.pdf
- Availability: Open to projects & research collaborations

## What I offer
- Field Research & Insight: I go where the problem is, listen to the people living it, and turn what I learn into insight your team can act on.
- Stories That Move Policy: Documentary, campaign and editorial work that makes evidence felt, not just read.
- Interactive & Digital Experiences: Narrative games, interactive explainers and AI-assisted tools that let people explore an issue for themselves.
- Convenings & Publications: End-to-end direction of events and archival publications, from programming and protocol to the printed page.

## Work
- [Equal Gender Participation in Green Skills](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/giz-green-skills/): Sessions and reels that brought girls' schools, ITIs and green businesses in West Bengal into one room. (GIZ India with Optima Solutions Consulting, Nov 2024 – Jun 2025)
- [Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/gandhi-king-exchange/): One of 10 young leaders from India and the US selected for a year-long U.S. State Department exchange on civil rights and nonviolence. (U.S. Department of State, Jun 2024 – Jan 2025)
- [Arriving in Germany](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/goethe-narrative-game/): A 2D game that lets skilled migrants rehearse life in Germany before they arrive: catching the right train, the bottle deposit, workplace etiquette. (Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, 2025 – 2026)
- [Élan 2024: Sustainability & Creativity Summit](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/elan-wwf-conference/): Leading end-to-end creative direction, multidisciplinary teams, and diplomatic protocol for a national environmental conference. (St. Xavier's College with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 2024)
- [Chronicle of a Century](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/chronicle-of-a-century/): Editorial curation and publication design uncovering century-old manuscripts from rare archival collections. (St. Xavier's College / Goethals Indian Library, 2022)
- [Women & Workers in Energy Transition](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/fes-women-workers-energy/): Speaker at a multi-stakeholder dialogue on what a fair energy transition means for women and workers. (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) India, Jun 2023 – Sep 2024)
- [Women in STEM](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/women-in-stem/): As an empanelled research associate, I ran interviews and surveys with women in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. (University of Glasgow, IIM Calcutta & University of Rwanda, 2025)
- [Linking Adolescent Girls with TVET](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/giz-tvet-report/): I made the documentary and designed GIZ's 2025 policy report on bringing adolescent girls into technical and vocational training. (GIZ India, 2025)
- [ArtEcho](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/artecho/): An app for expert-guided audio tours of Indian art, at home or in the gallery. From personas and journey maps to a high-fidelity prototype. (UX case study, 2024)
- [E4: Environment, Employability & Empowerment](https://suhanasanyal.com/work/e4-tribal-livelihoods/): Transmedia identity and field storytelling supporting tribal women bamboo and eco-friendly entrepreneurs. (U.S. Consulate Kolkata & SDRC, 2022)

## Featured in
- GIZ India Week, 2025: My documentary Linking Adolescent Girls to Green Skills was shown
- St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, 29 Mar 2025: I designed and led Micro Sprint, a design sprint for final-year design students at my alma mater's Post Graduate Department of Multimedia
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung India, 1 May 2024: Speaker at the fireside chat Multi-modal Transport System in Kolkata: An Urban Sustainability Imperative, with Arjan Basu Roy and Jayanta Basu
- The Telegraph, 15 Apr 2024: ELAN 2024 brought together creative minds to highlight a cause
- U.S. Consulate Kolkata, 2024: Gandhi-King Scholar Suhana Sanyal reflects on the shared democratic values of the US and India

## Collaborations
- U.S. Department of State, GIZ Germany & India, Stanford University, Goethe-Institut, University of Glasgow, IIM Calcutta, Common Earth Academy, Canada, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

## About
I don't separate research from design, nor do I separate code from social context. Grounded in my pure science background and multimedia training at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, I work with grassroots communities—from girls training in solar skills in Jharkhand to indigenous artisans in Purulia—to build systems, interactive games, and policy narratives that move beyond theory into lived human impact.