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Archana Kapoor is a Delhi based film maker and a social activist. She is the Founder/Director of an Non-governmental organization named Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation. The NGO uses modern and traditional media to provide information and voice to marginalized communities. Her effort is to provide an environment for acquiring knowledge and developing abilities to organize and influence the direction of social change.

Professional life
She is also the Founder of Radio Mewat (which came into existence in 2010), a Community radio station which furthers the access to information on important issues related to rural communities. Radio Mewat is located in the district of Mewat. The radio station is managed by members of the local community which has not only provided them with a platform of exposure but also contributed in creating their own identity    .Radio Mewat has won two national awards, first one was awarded under the 'Sustainability Model' category in 2011 and second one on 'Most Creative and Innovative Programme" in 2012.  The Radio was awarded the SKOCH Order of Merit in June 2014 for Financial Inclusion in Mewat and is recorded in the Limca Book of Records for the Radio run Consumer Helpline. It has been awarded several recognitions for its achievements and its stories of change have been widely covered by national and international press.

Archana has been a leader of the community radio movement in India, working with the government and other community radio stations to provide a larger space for the medium that reaches over 500 million people. She has been invited to speak at the 62nd Commission on Status of Women in the United Nations. She is a TEDx Speaker and was invited to Washington, D.C. for a talk.

She also founded The Radio Festival   with the support of UNESCO New Delhi Cluster Office, the only festival in India that brings together public, private, community and podcasters together. She has authored a toolkit to demystify United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Community radio: Communicating SDGs- A toolkit for Community Radio.

Archana has also made over 200 documentaries and serials and authored a book. As a filmmaker, under her banner, Archana Kapoor Productions, she has made more than 300 short and long documentaries, corporate films, Docu-dramas, serials and chat shows. She has worked for the government and the private sector. Her films have been telecast on national and private channels, been screened for niche audiences and at Summits and Conferences attended by Heads of States. She has been featured in national and international media, has received the prestigious Devi award instituted by the Sunday Standard and has been featured in the 3rd edition of Vodafone coffee table book 'Women of Substance' and the 2nd Edition of the Indian National Bar Association’s Book, The Phenomenal SHE. She has been featured by DD News in their popular show 'Tejaswini' which features women of substance and in a number of Radio Shows.