An evolving story

Consciousness researcher | organizational strategist | PhD student | parent | traveler | writer | dancer

I have worked in over fifteen countries—from an India-based venture philanthropy fund to a San Francisco-based development organization that incubated democracy and civic participation organizations across the world, to Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental organization, to Amnesty International. Nearly two decades ago, I co-founded ChangeCraft, a consulting practice that partners with philanthropic and non-profit organizations to reimagine and launch strategies, cultures, learning practices, and a more human-centered way of working.

I am currently a PhD student at the California Institute for Human Science where I study the edges of consciousness, extended human capacities, synchronicities, and mystical experiences that offer us portals to meaning, purpose, and sense-making. I investigate these through scientific and experiential means. My inquiry is transdisciplinary, evoking the many lenses that make up the complexity of human experience, including religion, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and identity studies. I have a Master’s degree in interreligious and interethnic conflict transformation from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the University of California, Berkeley.

Recently returned from a year of travels around the world to Asia and Europe, I currently live in Vancouver, British Columbia, with my partner and three sons.