Most recently, Gopi explored Indigenous communities across the Sahel and Pacific Northwest - that are mobilizing using millennia of traditional knowledge to combat climate change, endangering humanity’s most sacred sites and traditions for PBS. She also filmed with the Lakota community in the Black Hills of South Dakota highlighting land back movement for the Emmy nominated series United Shades of America with Kamau Bell on CNN. In the last few years, Gopi investigated the chain of custody of methamphetamine and embedded with the Sinaloa Cartel for the Emmy nominated series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, on National Geographic. She also travelled across America directing and producing a feature documentary for HBO Max following the lives of fierce female journalists on the Democratic campaign trail and explored ancestral foodways on the San Carlos Apache Reservation for the Emmy nominated series Taste the Nation, on Hulu with celebrity chef and change maker Padma Lakshmi.
In 2019, Gopi took to the streets of Harlem and the Bronx providing a provocative look into NYPD police brutality and citizen-whistleblowers who have taken up the fight to protect their community’s lives and rights; and embedded with farmers at the epicenter of the historic floods in America’s heartland reckoning with climate change.
Gopi also directed for National Geographic's Emmy award winning flagship Explorer series, the longest-running documentary series on cable television, where she travelled deep into the rainforests of Cambodia exposing the lethal dangers of environmental reporting; investigated some of the oldest geoglyphs in Peru and unearthed an unconventional crocodile conservation story in Northern Australia.
Previously, Gopi produced segments with visionaries Ava DuVernay, Aziz Ansari and Lupita Nyong’o. She also covered the global refugee crisis, filmed former warlords in Nigeria and profiled the healing aspects of Burning Man.
An avid adventurer, Gopi has explored coral reefs off the coast of Cuba, traveled over the peaks of Himalayas, touched the ancient sites of Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat and Easter Island. She holds a Master’s in Documentary Film from the University of London, Goldsmiths and a Bachelor of Arts from the George Washington University in Islamic and Hindu Studies. Gopi resides in New York City.
