Manjula Varghese

Manjula Varghese

Manjula Varghese

Lecturer

Alumni

Manjula Varghese is a multi-Emmy and Telly award winning documentary filmmaker who has over 20 years of experience producing both short and long form content. Currently she works with the digital development team as a producer and editor for KQED. Prior to KQED, she worked as a video journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. She also co-founded the film production company Mirrorlake Films. Her produced work explores issues facing marginalized communities from covering PTSD in veterans to gun violence in small urban cities. Her work has been published in PBS, PBS Plus, America Reframed, New York Times, NYT Op-Docs, AJ+, Blavity, Science Friday, KQED, PBS NewsHour, Amazon and the San Francisco Chronicle. She held the vice president position of the Asian American Journalists Association Bay Area chapter for three years and a governor position for the local NATAS chapter from 2017 – 2020. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Bay Area Video Consortium. She holds a B.A. in Film from Brigham Young University and a Masters in Journalism from Berkeley.

TEACHING SCHEDULE:

Sec. Title Time Location
001 J282 Introduction to Video Storytelling
Fall 2024
Mon, 6pm-9pm 101 North Gate (Production Lab) — 101 North Gate (Production Lab)
002 J282 Introduction to Video (Section 2)
Fall 2023
W 6–9pm 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
021 J298 – Video for the Web
Spring 2022
Tu 6:00 - 9:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)