An educator, artist, researcher, and community archivist, specializing in facilitating art methodologies as a transformative pedagogy.

Charanya Ramakrishnan currently works at the historic Louis Armstrong House Museum, where she is involved in art education, community engagement and community archives. A Fulbright Scholar, she is a graduate of the Art Education and Community Practice program at NYU Steinhardt and also holds a Master’s in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She draws on oral histories, archives and action research to advance art as a social practice.