For more than twenty years, India has equipped non-profits, corporations,
and universities with the tools and insights that they need to move into a
wider and fuller concept of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In
addition, she has developed meaningful Disability Justice practices for
workplaces, striving to make the professional environment more socially
just and more equitably accessible. Time and again, she has enabled
others to see their implicit biases and to make real progress toward
change. Her former clients include the Pacific Center for Human Growth,
the Northwest Health Foundation, Water Has No Enemy, Creative Growth,
the New College of Florida, Bay Area Legal, and Color of Change. While
she tailors her message to every group with which she collaborates, she is
also steadfast and unwavering in her devotion to social justice, the words
and the approach that she takes uniformly impactful.
As a public speaker, India has been equally unwavering in her devotion to
social justice, engineering keynote addresses, and workshops about
themes such as Disability Justice, DanceAbility, and the Access-Centered
Movement, among others. She has spoken to audiences at UC Davis, the
University of Oregon, De Anza College, Mills College, the University of
Northern Colorado, the University of San Francisco, UC Fullerton, and
Mental Health at the Intersections.
Not only a speaker but a somatic practitioner as well, India has spent more
than two decades developing her skills and expertise in massage,
somatics, and dance. Her massage and somatic training has touched on
several different schools of thought, including Swedish Massage, Deep
Tissue, Neuromuscular Therapy, Shiatsu, Thai, and Rosen Method
Bodywork. In dance, she has studied NIA, Zumba, KiVo, Dancing Freedom,
DanceAbility, and American DanceWheels wheelchair ballroom dance. Her
performance art is unabashed in its connection to her disability journey,
both antagonizing her and informing her every step of the way. Through her
dance, she intends to love herself more day in and day out – one more way
that her philosophy of radical acceptance is leading to lifelong
transcendence.
India earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the New College of
Florida and her Master of Arts in Integrative Health Studies at the California
Institute of Integral Studies. Whatever she is doing — practicing,
performing, teaching — she is setting forth an example that however our
bodies show up in the world, they are perfect, worthy of existence, and
capable of magic.