Lina Srivastava

Lina Srivastava is a strategist who works in narrative design, social innovation, and storytelling for human rights and international development. She is the founder CIEL, a social innovation strategy group in New York City. Lina has worked with social impact organizations around the world including UNESCO, the World Bank Institute, AARP, UNICEF, the Rockefeller Foundation, Apne Aap, Shine Global, and Donor Direct Action. The creator of the “transmedia activism” framework, Lina has worked with impact campaigns for several documentaries, including Oscar-winning Born into Brothels, Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback, Oscar-winning Inocente, and Sundance Film Festival and Social Impact Media Award-winning Who Is Dayani Cristal? She has produced Priya’s Shakti, an augmented-reality comic book concerning gender-based violence in India, is the interactive producer for the forthcoming Traveling While Black, and works with Lakou Mizik, a music project in Haiti. A former attorney and nonprofit executive director, Lina is on faculty in the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Design and Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts.