Nayanika is an animator, illustrator and storyteller from India. She is a recent animation graduate at the Royal College of Art in London.
Nayanika is one of the ten awardees of the Black British and POC Grant 2021.
She pursued a BA in political science after which her interest in social and political narratives grew as a Fellow at the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. She created photo stories, documentaries and animated news explainers as a multimedia journalist at ThePrint.in. She has worked as a motion graphics designer for advertising campaigns.