Team
Purvi Shah
Purvi Shah’s favorite art practices are her sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice.
While serving as the Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, she won the inaugural SONY South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women.
She co-led a creative expression workshop, Movement to Power, with the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective to confront intimate violence & enable healing. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, she directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project highlighting Asian American voices.
Purvi’s book, Miracle Marks, explores women, the sacred, and gender & racial equity. Terrain Tracks, her debut poetry collection on migration and belonging, won the Many Voices Project prize.
Purvi fosters change as a non-profit consultant, anti-violence advocate, and writer. She is curious about language & art as dreamwork for love, transformation & justice.
Anjali Deshmukh
@anja1i; 3d.anjalideshmukh.com
Anjali Deshmukh is an artist, game designer, and writer seeking a justice-driven capitalism 2.0. She creates for and with community in public spaces.
Anjali holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a Fulbright Scholar in Fine Arts. She was named an Award Finalist (2nd Place) for SXSW Eco’s 2016 Place By Design Competition. She's received 2 grants for public art from the Queens Council on the Arts and built games about the Universe, creativity, time, and memory at the Brooklyn Grange, Sunnyside Public Plaza, Brooklyn Museum, Dumbo Arts Festival, Digital Games Research Association, and Propelify Innovation Festival.
Previously, she was Vice President, Knowledge & Communications at Mission Investors Exchange and Director at JUST Capital, and Nonprofit Finance Fund; and an Americorps Vista Volunteer at the Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance.