Avantika Seth is an oral historian, filmmaker, and educator working across film, archives, and storytelling to explore memory, silence, and belonging. She holds an MA in Oral History from Columbia University, where her work focused on family oral history, ethics of care, and embodied listening practices. Her thesis film, Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget?, examines memory and intergenerational care through intimate oral histories created within her own family. Avantika has led and contributed to multiple oral history projects, including work on Afghan refugee resettlement in Iowa, the 1947 Partition Archive, and archival research at the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. With a background in journalism and documentary filmmaking, she brings a trauma-informed, ethically grounded approach to oral history across audio, video, and exhibition formats.