Executive Director,聽Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), 91黑料网
Sheetal Lodhia聽has been working to foster relationships between academic institutions and the world-at-large, championing interdisciplinarity, collaboration and broad purchase for knowledge. She has a history of involvement in the nonprofit and social innovation sector, working with grassroots organizations, arts-education groups and policy organizations in strategic planning, community engagement and grant acquisition. She sat on the Steering Committee for The Steps Initiative for several years, and now sits on the Board of Directors for聽, the founders of Toronto鈥檚 first聽.
A doctoral graduate in English Literature from Queen鈥檚 University, she has researched and taught in Renaissance poetry, prose and drama, history of medicine, colonialism and cultural studies. She has produced聽, art installations and聽. She has also completed her first聽. Sheetal also founded, a company that is one-part creative production and one-part think-tank. Having lived in two Canadian cities where blackface incidences/events take place, and as a visible minority herself, Sheetal continually asks "why is this still a thing?!", and works to create dialogue so that this will no longer be a thing. As a matter of course, she consumes popular culture with abandon, and harbours fantasies of becoming a pro-tennis player.
Connect with Sheetal:听听sheetal.lodhia [at] mcgill.ca (Email)听听|听听
