Associate Elementary Guide

• Aug 2023 - Present

Lead Montessori Primary Guide

• Aug 2021 - Present

Founder and Director

• Jul 2010 - Present

Performance arts organization that integrates social and emotional learning (SEL) and Indian classical dance among young people between the ages of 6-17. • Establish the organization in 2010, fund the organization through paid subscription • Train students in Indian classical dance that includes learning dance technique, creating personal connections between mythology and one’s life, and development of the whole child through social and emotional training. • Use movement, storytelling, and facial expression to experience, become aware of and communicate emotions. • Present to parents to cultivate an appreciation and value for social and emotional learning through the arts. Show less

Program Officer II

• Jul 2003 - Jul 2010

Consulting organization uses strategic communication, research, mass media, and entertainment education to drive health behavior change 1. Training: • Develop curriculum and facilitate sessions for interpersonal communication in Leadership workshop that trains government and non-government officials in the development field. • Facilitate workshop to develop state level comprehensive communication strategy for Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, adolescents health, and HIV/AIDS in Uttar Pradesh, India (USAID funded project) 2. Materials development • Conceptualize and co-develop a participatory parent-child communication training curriculum that integrates arts education for USAID funded Gender Initiative on Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV: Go girls! • Co-author of teacher’s guide for facilitating healing among children affected by the Tsunami. UNICEF used the teacher's guide in Sri Lanka post Tsunami and then by UNICEF in Pakistan during the 2006 Earthquake. • Developed multimedia campaign materials and training manuals for adolescent reproductive health program in Bangladesh, HIV/AIDS program in Maharashtra India, and maternal and child health program in Nepal. 3. Technical and management lead in design, implementation, and evaluation of health communication programs on family planning, maternal and child health, adolescents, and HIV/AIDS in India and Bangladesh. • Successfully negotiate health communication and partner role in consortium • Conceptualize, develop, and implement mass and multi-media campaigns • Develop entertainment education radio drama for role modeling desired behaviors • Develop formative and baseline research questionnaires 4. Proposal Writing • Lead health communication author of the winning proposal for CCP’s USD 8.9 Million portfolio of a Reproductive Health program in India Show less

Performing Artist

• 2005 - 2010

Ensemble member and Soloist in Dakshina's dance productions including Karna and Vasantha. Performed at the Lincoln Theatre, Dance Place, and Kennedy Center in the Washington metropolitan area, the Alvina Ailey Company in New York, and Painted Bride in Pittsburg. Ensemble member and Soloist in Dakshina's dance productions including Karna and Vasantha. Performed at the Lincoln Theatre, Dance Place, and Kennedy Center in the Washington metropolitan area, the Alvina Ailey Company in New York, and Painted Bride in Pittsburg.