Falguni Lakhani Adams
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Falguni Lakhani Adams is an Emmy award-winning producer and executive with Vice TV, a multi-hyphenate mom, director, writer, spiritual speaker, mindfulness coach, and entrepreneur. Falguni has worked with nonprofit organizations focusing on domestic violence within immigrant/South Asian communities, child poverty, and women’s health.
Inspiring, collaborating and growing as a society.
Popular Talks
The Power of Pivot
The audience is left inspired, with guidance and potential for various paths forward.
South Asian Storytelling in Mainstream Media
The audience was left understanding how we can foster an environment of inclusion whilst not allowing the nature of the work to suffer. They also derive a sense of how to put themselves out there to be part of the movement to diversify voices in this arena.
Network Executive – Leading with Empathy
The audience is left understanding the importance of listening to the beat of your own drum while guiding a group of people to work together to build something special. They are also left inspired, as we can be more effective in the workforce with compassion.
Consulting
I provide guidance around the media landscape through the lens of empathy, passion and years of experience as a BIPOC woman.
“Falguni is whip-smart, great at every aspect of producing for tv: from booking, to shooting in the field, and finally putting it all together in the edit room. Her legal background was incredibly helpful on a huge number of Dateline stories.”
– Alexandra Gleysteen, Journalist
Falguni Lakhani Adams is an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and executive producer with ViceTV, living in Venice, California. She holds a law degree from St. John’s University and more than 20 years’ experience producing creative nonfiction stories for broadcast TV, digital media and long-form audio documentaries. She’s a recent Environmental Media Association winner for ViceTV’s series “Unknown Amazon with Pedro Andrade”. Other projects include, “The Search for Q”, “Too Soon: Comedy after 9/11” and “Black Market with Michael K Williams.” Prior to ViceTV she worked on shows such as “United Shades of America” with W. Kamau Bell, a NatGeo series “Valley of the Boom,” and a limited series for Amazon Studios about the DC sniper shootings. She also has a long list of credits and Emmy awards for NBC News including 10 years at Dateline NBC.
Along with her professional achievements, Falguni has worked with nonprofit organizations focusing on domestic violence within immigrant/South Asian communities, child poverty, and women’s health.
She recently co-founded Getting Hotter, a community-based enterprise within the wellness space to create a safe space for women, with a focus on South Asian women, navigate all phases of menopause, and women’s health from a girlfriend’s perspective. Her focus on production and community has earned her a space in Veronica Beard’s Make it Happen campaign which highlights women who are movers and shakers in work and life.
Falguni is also a recipient of the accolade of being profiled with The Know magazine for 40 women above 40 to know. In her spare time, she sits on the board for Boys and Girls Club Metro and a mentor in the Hollywood Radio & Television Society mentorship program as well as mentoring young women through Democroshe and helping engage them in politics. She is also a yoga/meditation teacher who volunteers in low-income LA public schools.
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