SANGITA SHRESTHOVA

 

 Scholar, Consultant, Speaker, Educator, Artist

Media, Civics and Culture Expert

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Sangita Shresthova works at intersection between civics, culture, performance, new media, participatory politics, and globalization.  She is a writer, thinker, and doer. She is currently the Director of Research of the Civic Paths Group based at the University of Southern California, where her current work is focused on the civic imagination. She is also a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Social Change in Austria.

 

She conducts workshops, consults, develops projects, writes, conducts research and lectures on topics related to:

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civic engagement and democracy

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civic imagination

 

youth and politics

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participatory cultures

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participatory politics and civic media

 

transmedia - by any media necessary

 

transnational fandom

 

surveillance and storytelling

 

performance and new media