Soni Dasmohapatra

Arts, culture, and heritage are tools for healing and tapping into embodied messaging both individually and collectively. Soni's research interest is to build capacity for students in the higher learning setting to explore this as a part of their inquiry into obtaining professionalization as Arts and Cultural administrators. Whether they be in public sector, non-profit, academia or philanthropy it is essential that the current student body ask critical questions about power positionality, check into their bodies, and not just intellectualize with their heads and understand the impacts of the pandemic on all of the future creations in leadership models, program planning, organizational change and sustainability of arts, culture, and heritage ecosystems. Having had experience in all of these sectors, being trained as a classical Indian dancer and building a somatic coaching practice, Soni has a unique opportunity to support students, faculty and MacEwan staff to explore different models of wellness, mental health, and healing through using arts, heritage, and culture as foundational tools of inquiry. | Governance, project management, community engagement, decolonization, universal design learning, anti-racism, equity, cultural diplomacy

Soni Dasmohapatra is Assistant Professor | Research Institute for Urban Wellness Member at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include Arts, culture, and heritage are tools for healing and tapping into embodied messaging both individually and collectively. Soni's research interest is to build capacity for students in the higher learning setting to explore this as a part of their inquiry into obtaining professionalization as Arts and Cultural administrators. Whether they be in public sector, non-profit, academia or philanthropy it is essential that the current student body ask critical questions about power positionality, check into their bodies, and not just intellectualize with their heads and understand the impacts of the pandemic on all of the future creations in leadership models, program planning, organizational change. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.