Thought Leadership

Sonali has been actively engaged in cultivating thought leadership through various writing and speaking projects. In 2014 she founded an online quarterly magazine, Global Rasika, dedicated to cultivate critical thinking and discourse in the field of Odissi dance. She has participated in a number of panel discussions (live and digital) on current trends in the dance field. She has also been a featured speaker on various (live and digital) platforms. Sonali has also written for HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters) Magazine, Narthaki.com, attenDance, Nartanam, and American Kahani. Sonali received her BA in English from the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and an MS in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, with a concentration on Cultural Policy and Development.