Education• Teaching visual arts as private and group classes to students across all ages from preschool (4 years old) to adults.Art• Was part of ArtPop, a two-week-long artisan pop-up holiday market in Mountain View (2017, 2018, 2019)• Create hand-crafted projects, personalized to suit occasion, mood and character• Event planning, designing invites, story-boarding, fiber arts, and other handmade arts and crafts.• Logo design for startup PlanmoCreative Writing and Designing• Edited the essay "Landforming, the Art for an Ecological Future" for Seoul-based Space magazine (April 2012)• Documentation of project “Bungalow for Mr. Ghogre at Nagpur” by Ar. Rahul Deshpande (2010)• Write-ups for Construction Catalysers Private Limited, documenting their projects, I-Lab Building, Hyderabad, Airports at Bhopal and Port Blair and the Archery Stadium at New Delhi (2009-2010)• Designed the interiors of a corporate gifting shop, ‘Exotica’ in Pune (2008)• Core designer in a team of four for designing and implementing bus shelters for the ‘Bus Rapid Transport System’ which were successfully installed and in use in Pune (since 2006)

• Teaching both online and in person.• Regional Support Specialist supporting 20 art teachers at Art4Schools program through lesson observations, planning workshops and site support. (2022-2023)• Small group lead mentoring first year art teachers at Art4Schools program (2019, 2020, 2021).• Member of Curriculum Development Committee for in-school Art4Schools Program to apply new California State Standards and build online lessons for distance learning, and updated to in-person learning (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).• School Art Teacher at K-8 Roy Cloud School, Redwood City (2022-2023)• School Art Teacher at K-8 Roy Cloud School, Redwood City (2021-2022) - Partial year.• Art Teacher for five 5th grade classes, MVWSD (2020-2021). (Taught entirely live online through Zoom.)• School Art Teacher at TK-5 John Muir School, Cupertino (2020-2021). (Taught entirely live online through Google Meet.)• School Art Teacher at K-8 Roy Cloud School, Redwood City (2019-2020).• School Art Teacher at TK-8 Roosevelt School, Redwood City (2018-2019).• School Art Teacher at K-5 Imagination School, Palo Alto (2017-2018).• Plan, and install several student art shows (Imagination School 2018, Roosevelt School 2019, Roy Cloud School 2020, Mountain View City Hall 2019, 2020, CSMA Mohr Gallery 2018. 2019, 2020)• Teaching On-site, Camps, Preschool and Arts4School departments.• Working with preschool age children and their care-givers to provide early exposure to art materials, color theory and techniques.• Onsite Draw Paint Sculpt, Elementary Drawing, Elementary Painting, Fashion Accessory design classes to children aged 5 - 10 years.• Seasonal Art Camp Instructor (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)• Teaching themed Art Clubs At Springer Elementary, Mountain View and Roy Cloud School, Redwood City.

• People Manager (2020 onwards) - Interviewing candidates for teaching positions, managing training session for first-year teachers.• Toy Design 1 teacher (2016-present) - Teaching hand and machine sewing skills, to design and make unique plush toys.• Architecture Design teacher (2019-present)• Product Design teacher (2016-present) - Teaching basic woodworking skills, to design and make unique home accessories• Teaching elementary grades at after school programs at • Gardner Bullis Elementary School, Los Altos Hills (2017) • Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, Palo Alto (2016, 2017, 2018) • Arroyo School, San Carlos (2018, 2019)• Teaching summer camps at Bullis Charter School, Los Altos (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

• Toy Design 1 teacher - Teaching hand and machine sewing skills, to design and make unique plush toys.• Fashion Accessory Design teacher (With DezignKidz) - Teaching hand and machine sewing skills, to design and make personalized fashion accessories like handbags, jewelry, headbands, etc.• Summer Camps 2016 at Bullis Charter School, Fall, Winter and Spring after-school programs with elementary grade children at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School.

Art Instructor• Teaching Beginner’s Drawing and Painting class and Art Exploration class to 5-9 year-olds• Teaching Teen’s Mixed Media class• Teaching family and kids’ canvas painting classes• Instructing and running art parties

• Proofreading, researching and creating content for the monthly magazine The Urbanist• Coordinating with various individuals and groups within SPUR for brainstorm sessions

• Coordinate different levels of language lessons among the residents of International House • Plan monthly social events, sometimes in collaboration with other program fellows to increase awareness about different cultures through language and culture exchange

• Leading orientation tours around the city and planning the international scholars and students orientation day at the beginning of the academic year• Answering their questions, concerns, and worries about what to expect and giving a student's perspective about living and studying in New York City• Helping new international students as they make their transition to Columbia University, and to the United States

Publications Assistant• Worked closely with Kenneth Frampton, publisher Lars Muller, and the contributors, architects Stanley Saitowitz, Brigitte Shim, Howard Sutcliffe, Rick Joy, John and Patricia Patkau and Steven Holl, as part of editorial team for the recently published Five North American Architects: An Anthology by Kenneth Frampton• Worked on securing image rights and communications for the recently published Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering by Princeton Architecture Press• Editing and content research for the forthcoming publication Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture an Engineering by Princeton Architecture Press• Copy-editing, proof reading and fact-checking content for architectural publications• Content research (archival and online) and official communications with contributors

•Logistical research on publications, events and activities proposed in “VAI Books”, a multi-disciplinary public reading room, bookstore, publishing and curatorial project•Working in a team to develop various categories like performative, informative and educational aspects of the project •Preparing detailed reports and abstracts on researched topics

Lecturer at Women’s Education Society, Smt. Manoramabai Mundle College of Architecture, Nagpur• Assisting in First and Second year studios for subjects Visual Art, Graphics and workshop • Designing posters, writing press notes and reports for college activities• Co-editor of the annual college newsletter ‘Milestone’

In-house Content Writer with ‘Indian Architect & Builder’ magazine (leading Indian Business-to-Business monthly publication dealing with the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry), published by Jasubhai Media Private Limited, Mumbai • Researched, sourced and created content for each issue including articles, book reviews. • Member of the content creation team for the website www.aecworldexpo.com

• ‘Kimaya’, a conservation-architecture-urban design practice – principals, Kiran and Anjali Kalamdani• Prepared site visit reports and drawings for the Conservation project of Vishrambagwada – a 200-year-old royal residence in old Pune• Measured Drawing and a comprehensive presentation to clients about the Tulshibag temple and surroundings – a heritage precinct in old Pune• Translated four articles from Marathi to English originally written by Ar. Anjali Kalamdani