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Swati and Garrett are facilitators of stories, community organizers, project builders, and practitioners of spirituality and the arts and they see the ecosystem of a theatrical production as a mirror to the business of change-making. Their work interrogates the duality of decolonizing, dismantling and unlearning, and the process of creation, innovation and learning.
Their portfolio of services ranges from hosting retreats and crafting immersive residencies, designing and facilitating workshops, and creative consulting. They work with artists, educators, non-profits, philanthropic foundations, public offices, universities, and private sector companies focused on social impact.
Their leadership has spanned the likes of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Embassy of Mexico, Opera Philadelphia, the Kimmel Center, Olivetti Leadership Institute, Teach for America, Center for Wellness Achievement in Education, Leadership for Asian Pacifics, Midori & Friends, ArtSmart, Skidmore College, San Jose Museum of Art, Sesame Street Workshop, Celebrity Series of Boston, Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab, Mayor’s Office of Oakland, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Zuni Youth Enrichment Program, and the A:shiwi Awan College and Career Readiness Center.
Swati and Garrett believe the balance of theory and practice creates a limitless container for innovation and creation and are committed to breathing life into the complex challenges that arise at your institution.
Swati
Swati
Swati is a first-gen, Desi, woman with roots in both India and the Bay Area. She started community organizing about 15 years ago, focusing on intersectional issues that impact immigrant women. Her work has taken her from an all-girls school in Sri Lanka, to a prison in Spain. She’s directed an art magazine and several theatrical productions, taught in a tribally-run school district, and worked in several public offices, all with community-based growth and change in mind. She’s currently working at a non-profit developing opportunities for educators interested in community organizing. Her current research has been focused on reclaiming traditional forms of healing (specifically Vedic) and understanding the impact that meditation and music have on people impacted by trauma. The threads binding her diverse array of experiences have been education, critical consciousness, and a commitment to systemic betterment.
Garrett
Garrett
Garrett is a Queer artist who finds joy at the intersection of performance, facilitation, design, and production. His work celebrates holism, criticality, and justice, prioritizing authentic connection and community building while simultaneously disrupting problematic and ineffective systems and structures that impact the complex and nuanced people and stories that shape and fuel the world of art-making! Garrett’s relationship to art and creation developed during his 150+ performance credits as an opera singer and a decade’s worth of leading experiential workshops and residencies that uplift creative expression, identity work, purpose, power dynamics, and leadership development. Weaving together his passions, Garrett has transitioned into the role of creative producer, most notably in supporting Grammy-award winning Eighth Blackbird on their journey of evoliving the Blackbird Creative Lab, a creative and practice development program for contemporary classical artists.
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