TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Visual and Performing Arts Teacher in SFUSD

Taught workshop for Music Teachers at Stanford Live

Committee member for the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, 2015-2017

Panelist for World Arts West in 2016 for the 39th Annual  San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

Developed the artist-in-residency program for CalPerformances presentation of Shiva, 2016, for sixth graders in the Berkeley Unified School District

Developed arts education curriculum to support the Maharaja exhibit at Asian Art Museum, 2012

Senior instructor at Chhandam School of Kathak Dance, 1996-2016

Lecture/ Demonstrations at many universities, schools, and museums in the U.S. and India since 1996 s

Master classes for National Dance Week, since 2002

Presenter at Young Audiences of the Bay Area's Artist and Teacher training workshops as well as roster artist since 1999

Arts Education Director -- development of assembly programs and curriculum guide for Young Audiences of the Bay Area, 1999-2006

Participant on KQED’s Spark Education Advisory Committee in 2003

Educator for the San Francisco Unified School District since 1994, currently teaching dance in the Visual and Performing

Arts Department (VAPA) at SFUSD. 

Guest lecturer at SFSU, and Deborah Slater’s Art of the Matter program

Guest teacher at Mills College, dance program