Rita Meher

Rita Meher co-founded Tasveer in March 2002. Before diving full-time as the Executive Director of Tasveer in 2012, she was a video producer and editor. She 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 as one of the Rising Stars (2015), the Seattle Globalist of the Year (2015), and Excellence in Arts (2016) by International Examiner and nominated for Seattle Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts in 2017. Her passion is to bring unique South Asian diaspora stories to light. She was born and brought up in India, and lived in Japan. She speaks English, Hindi, Odia, and Japanese.