I created this website in Oakland, California, on the unceded territory of the Ohlone people whose name for this place is Huichin. I give thanks to the keepers of this land and acknowledge the massive technological inequities that disproportionately impact indigenous people across the globe from accessing the Internet and related infrastructure that afford opportunities to earn income and thrive.

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Additionally, on this website I have used pictures of textiles, mostly from Bengal and other parts of South Asia. I am grateful to the artisans who weaved, dyed, and produced these materials and others with longstanding knowledge of their craft. 

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I am an educator, trainer, transformative justice practitioner and restorative justice facilitator working at the borders of criminalization, intergenerational trauma, structural violence and youth empowerment. I have been blessed to serve as a politicized community healer within institutional settings (school, carceral domains), organizations/workplaces, and families/kinship networks. 

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Using personal narrative and embodied practice, I deepen conversations across difference and cultivate humanizing relationships. I integrate tools from multiple traditions to recover human connection between people at multiple ends of historical injustice.

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I seek opportunities for dialogue and accountability regarding systemic oppression and the way it manifests in interpersonal relationships. I mobilize my survivorship from violence for radical love, with an eye toward (dis)ability, disrupting power & hierarchy, and stopping harm.

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As an artist-facilitator in people’s movements for justice and dignity, I aim to creatively render and imagine solutions to social problems by centralizing the voices of those who directly experience them.  I have innovated several programs in carceral settings and have been recognized as a leader in holding trauma-informed, liberatory spaces with incarcerated people through participatory theater and personal transformation. My curriculum "A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Medicines of Healing in Theater Arts and Restorative Justice" is available for digital purchase and limited orders in print.

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Inspired by the rich tradition of Bengali cultural resistance, I learned theater in the movement and in the streets of my community. I support others to agitate through storytelling and implementing creative strategies for change.  My lineage of bravery, truth-telling, and action is tempered by my caste-privileged Hindu heritage. I hold anti-caste and caste abolition politics, and draw inspiration from Dalit and Bahujan activists in excavating and exposing legacies of caste violence in the South Asian diaspora.

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