Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

• 800M+ views and 1.5M+ followers across digital platforms like YouTube and Instagram with a focus on blending education and entertainment across topics like learning, health, gender, culture, empowerment, academia and more!
• Partnerships
• We’ve collaborated with creators, brands and organizations across geographies and categories! Some notable partnerships include the Gates Foundation, Google Arts & Culture, Aspen Institute, brands like Netflix, Skillshare and Duolingo, and features in publications like Elle, The Rolling Stone, VICE, BBC Asia. We’ve also partnered with leading ed-tech and health-tech brands, particularly focused on higher education opportunities and women’s health on campaigns to increase their accessibility.
• Speaking Engagements/Ambassadorships
• Spoken and performed at the United Nations, Oxford, Stanford, IIT, US Embassy and more, bridging the gap between the creative, digital and business worlds. Represented South Asia at Women Deliver (gender equity conference) in Rwanda and at IFP (world’s largest reproductive and sexual health conference) in Thailand. Serves as a champion for The Hunger Project UK, and on the advisory council of The Cycle, two nonprofits focused on girls’ education, menstrual rights and mobility around the world.

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Golden Milk Media is a digital entertainment company spanning production, talent support, content development and more. Started the company in 2019 to create responsible, tech-driven and meaningful content, with an umbrella function to our studio and other projects.

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

• Performances
• 100+ stages across the world, including venues like the Gateway of India, Times Square and more!
• #50Songs50Weeks50Languages
• A project embarking on a multicultural journey, where I challenged myself to sing a new song in a different language each week. Collaborating with artists from diverse backgrounds, we celebrated the richness of global heritage through music and fashion. Languages featured include popular ones like Hindi, Persian, Korean and Spanish, and those with less visibility like Irula, Gnawa, Ahirani and more. This innovative project was spotlighted by India's Ministry of Culture for its homage to the craftsmanship of various cultures, and has 300M+ views and millions of recreations across platforms!
• Social Impact Organizations
• Performed at charity events for organizations like The Hunger Project, American India Foundation, Pratham USA, TiE, Terry Fox Cancer Foundation, Strong Women Strong Girls, Mumbai Marathon, 26/11 Terror Attack Memorial, among others
• Original Music
• Our music explores themes like consent, bodily autonomy, and relationships. During the release of our song, "Sun Toh Lo" (which means please listen in Hindi), we partnered with mental health organizations across India to offer subsidized therapy to those in need! Been honored at the Boston Music Awards, Indian Independent Music Awards and featured in publications like Elle, The Rolling Stone, BBC Asia.
• Training
• Indian Classical Music under the tutelage of Dr. Prabha Atre
• Other styles: Church/Gospel, Indian Devotional, Broadway, Contemporary (Berklee College of Music)
• Western Classical Piano (Trinity), Indian Tanpura

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs

• National Tour in India for ‘Agnes of God’ (2015-2017)
• Played the lead role of Agnes, an acting and singing role
• Nominated for Best Actress at the META National Theatre Awards
• Was almost arrested (story below!)
• Featured Singer for Eve Ensler's Indian Adaptations
• The Vagina Monologues (2014-2015)
• Emotional Creature (2013-2014)

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · India

• YCPR (‘Y’ stands for both Youth and the question: Why?) is a campaign that empowers the youth to help save lives within their communities. The aim was to create a network of Bystander CPR trained youth, ready to administer life-saving treatment when the need arises, by partnering with a local hospitals and primary care centers to facilitate the training, and schools to run workshops for their students.
• The campaign was seed-funded with my earnings as a Performing Artist and we received ‘Rising Star’ award for Social Consciousness at EMCON 2014, India’s largest emergency medicine conference

Jan 2012 – Jan 2019 · 7 yrs · India, United States

• Harvard Global Health Institute (2017-2019)
• Independently funded research, funding from HGHI, advised by Dr. Vikram Patel
• Conducted informant-based field research and landscaping in India on mental health disparities in adolescent girls – policy, nonprofit, business, tech, practice, medical perspectives
• Qualitative research using focus groups among college population: to understand attitudes toward, perceptions of, and current behavioral patterns of the intersection between mental health, social media and technology – expansion focus on designing interventions
• Harvard South Asia Institute (2018)
• Received a summer research grant to work with traditional instrumentalists across South Asia to conducting research and recordings with instruments such as the bela-baharr, sarangi, sarod, tabla, dhime, madal, and more, to recover lost sounds into modern musical arrangements. Recorded with artists in India and Nepal
• Harvard Business School (2017)
• Independent Research under the advisement of Michael Norton and Dafna Goor
• Research focus: Relationship between authenticity and secrecy in marketing psychology research with a specific focus on human brands as a hybrid between for-profit brands and beings with values, with rarity being the mediator
• Harvard Medical School (2015-2016)
• Research Assistant, supported Dr. David Jones’ Research on the Development of Cardiac Disease and Therapeutics in India
• Research focus: Field-Based, Historical, Socio-Cultural, Archival
• Surveyed, collected and analyzed Archival Evidence of Cardiac Disease and Therapeutics Literature
• Interviewed Physicians, Surgeons and Hospital Administration with knowledge about the medical system in the 60s and 70s about Development Periods, Correspondence, Leads on Surviving Records, Historical Evidence
• Harvard Business School India Centre (2015)
• Research Assistant
• Synthesized Research for the creation of a Research Study Institute of Festivals in India from an Economic and Political Perspective