Sangeetha (Sangi) Ravichandran
Associate Director
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers/They/Them/Theirs
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About
Sangeetha (Sangi) Ravichandran is a queer South Asian activist scholar, an art therapist and a current PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the sociology program. She was born and raised in India, and moved to Chicago in 2007 to pursue fine arts, subsequently a masters in art therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked with A Long Walk Home Inc and Apna Ghar for several years as a program manager and art therapist before returning to academia. Her current research examines criminalization, medical industrial complex, immigration, race and gender through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. She currently organizes with Love & Protect, a Chicago based collective to end criminalization of survivors of violence. She also serves on the Chicago Desi Youth Rising collective in an advisory capacity. Through her research, art/therapy practice and activism, she hopes to collectively build a world that is geared towards gender and racial justice.
Sangi worked at the Center Academic Year 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.