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Suhana Sanyal
Socio-technical design · Kolkata

Grounded in the field.
Crafted in code.

I help climate and gender-equity organisations turn fieldwork into films, tools and briefs that change decisions.

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Selected 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
Selected Work

Fieldwork, Narrative & Code

What I Offer

How I can help

Four ways I work with organisations. Each links to a project that shows it in practice.

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Field Research & Insight

For: NGOs, development agencies, CSR and policy teams

I go where the problem is, listen to the people living it, and turn what I learn into insight your team can act on.

What you get
  • Field interviews & participatory research
  • Systems & stakeholder maps
  • Insight reports and policy briefs
  • Multilingual fieldwork (Bengali, Hindi, English)
Qualitative codingSystems mappingStakeholder matrixField audio/visual archiving

Stories That Move Policy

For: Foundations, think tanks and advocacy campaigns

Documentary, campaign and editorial work that makes evidence felt, not just read.

What you get
  • Documentary shorts & field films
  • Campaign identity and visual toolkits
  • Explainers, publications and book design
Premiere Pro & After EffectsDaVinci ResolveInDesign, Illustrator, PhotoshopFigma

Interactive & Digital Experiences

For: Cultural institutions, educators and mission-driven teams

Narrative games, interactive explainers and AI-assisted tools that let people explore an issue for themselves.

What you get
  • Choice-driven narrative games
  • Interactive web explainers
  • AI-assisted workflows & prototypes
  • Data analysis in Python
Python (pandas, scikit-learn)JavaScript / HTML5 CanvasTwine / branching enginesAgentic workflows & RAG

Convenings & Publications

For: Institutions, colleges and summit organisers

End-to-end direction of events and archival publications, from programming and protocol to the printed page.

What you get
  • Conference & summit direction
  • Speaker, delegate and protocol coordination
  • Commemorative and archival publications
Programme designTeam leadershipStage operationsEditorial direction
Open to projects & research collaborations
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Portrait of Suhana Sanyal
About & Practice

Why I work at the intersection.

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.

My work with the U.S. Department of State, GIZ Germany, and Stanford Code in Place taught me that complex systems succeed or fail based on human trust. Code and creative media are my tools to bridge that distance.

Based in: Kolkata, India
Status: Open to projects & research collaborations

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