Jigar S. Mehta in New York, NY | Stanford University - Berkeley

Jigar S. Mehta

Male, 43 years old

Media Innovation Strategist. Entrepreneur. Design Thinker. Video Journalist. Documentary Filmmaker. Storyteller. Burrito Lover. Seeking to foster a creative collaboration between media entrepreneurs and media institutions. As a founding team member at Matter Ventures, I supported entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society through our -month start-up accelerator in San Francisco. My current documentary is Days in Egypt, a transmedia storytelling project about the Egyptian Revolution told by those who lived it, supported by Tribeca Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. I've been honored to be a Knight Journalism Fellow and a video journalist at The New York Times. I'm currently a boardmember with the South Asian Journalists Association. ...Oh, I bleed Blue and Gold. BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MJ in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. read more ...