SHAMINDER DULAI

Shaminder Dulai is a 13-time Emmy-nominated, 3-time Best of Photojournalism award-winning journalist, showrunner, executive producer, filmmaker and creative technologist with over two decades of experience producing stories for independent films, newspapers, magazines, television, digital newsrooms, nonprofits and startups. He crafts grounded narratives with intimacy, immediacy and impact that live beyond the daily news cycle, empowering communities to make informed choices and understand complex issues with empathy. Great storytelling is a team sport. Dulai is a multi-talented end-to-end producer, but also thrives as a story producer, field producer, DP, AD, Editor, and more when supporting others' projects. He has led departments at NBC, Newsweek, Cascade PBS, Amazon, and the YMCA, and collaborated with teams at The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Hearst, and more. His independent films include Tender Mercies (2010), Part Time Americans (2015), Undertow (2016), Gaza in the Dark (2017), Path to Radicalization (2018), Living with a Pandemic (2020), Shadows in the Light (2025) and the forthcoming A Little Bit Sweet. His work has been featured on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, PBS, Newsweek, The Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, and Vibe, among others. Within the industry, he has been called a 'story doula' for his ability to step in as a producer, writer and editor to help directors comb through hard drives of footage, organize and discover the story that needs to be told. He is also cited as an authority on ethics, visual anthropology and cultural criticism, and has had his writing on the topics featured in Columbia Journalism Review, The Magnum Foundation, The Everyday Projects, and by Broadway’s “Slave Play;” and he has been quoted in stories by NPPA, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bright Magazine, and more. A Poynter Fellow, Hearst Fellow, and ICFJ Fellow, and a finalist for the Harvard Nieman, Knight-Mozilla, and JSK Stanford Fellowships, Dulai is a passionate advocate for ethics, media literacy, and diversity in newsroom leadership. Coming from a historically marginalized background, he understands firsthand the harm caused when there isn't someone in the room to name institutional blind spots as learning opportunities. He has taught New Media Narratives at the International Center for Photography and mentored journalists across Video Consortium, AAJA, NPPA, Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and more. His personal projects have received grants and support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the International Center for Journalists, the New York State Council on the Arts, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Columbia Law School, among others. He is co-founder of StatelessVoices and Reclaim Photo, founder of PhotoWalk.Cities, and a former Vice President of the NPPA. His mother always told him it's rude to beat your own drum, so having to write the preceding paragraphs was very uncomfortable for him.