Building Collaboratives for Clean Energy, Water, and Diverse Social/ Ecological cross-sectional Issues:

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Co-founder of three Non-profit social enterprises, and a founder of a Clean Tech-venture:

• Co-Solve Collective (USA, 2021), SahKaryam Foundation (India. 2022), both of these organizations currently active by taking on persistent social and ecological problems.  Current thematic areas of our work - migrant workers' dignified shelter problems in India, and livelihood capacity building through techno-finance scalable models for small women farmers in India.  More themes are under considerations.  For external link to Co-Solve and Sahkaryam click here.  

• Principal founder of a Non-profit Clean Energy and Water for All (2009-2021)- Facilitator role in building small groups of global stakeholder forums for solar concentrator, India's biogas, slum drinking water in Indian, constructed wetlands for waste water treatment.  Now this non-profit has assumed a new identity and expanded its mission as Co-Solve Collective (mentioned above).

• Founding member of a company  named CEWA Technologies (now in a new morphed form as SolarFlux) ffor commercializing solar thermal concentrator (note that I am no longer active in this new company).  For external link to SolarFlux, click here.  

 

My primarily role in the above has been to start the dialogs with suitable stakeholders from the USA and India from the academia, corporations, NGOs, communities in India, technologists, expert institutions, spiritual and cultural leaders.   And in the process we have formed formal organizational identity in order to undertake action that may have been exploratory, or empowering others to work together, or taking on projects.  ​

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Science/Education:

• Ph.D. in Biophysics (Radiological Sciences) from MIT, Fellowship in Harvard-MIT Division Health Sciences and Technology

• S.M. Physics from MIT

• B.Sc. Physics from Gujarat University, India

• Graduate courses in Online Interface and Instructional Design & Education Technology, Lehigh University, USA

• Two-year Post-doctoral research in Centre De Transfusion Sanguine, Strasbourg, France

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Corporate Organizational & Learning Development: Mostly as an employee in Microelectronics Division of Lucent Technology and its spin-off Agere Systems.  Earlier work as an independent consultant for technology-based training design for Cornell Uni., AT&T Sales, Saunders College Publishing

• Leadership role in Organization Development for all of the engineering divisions; developed corporate performance, knowledge and learning platform for technical and business employees,  numerous semi-conductor industry pertinent Engineering Curricula and Training Program Development and Implementation, Collaborative Symposia Development, Online and in-person training course development and delivery, Liaison with industry and academic partners​​

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Indian Classical Music & Music of Our Time:

• 12 years of vocal training, B.A. Equivalent Diploma of Sangeet Visharad, 

• Solo ticketed concert artist activist for raising awareness for environmental and social justice causes in France, USA, India

• Collaborative composer of Indian classical music  and western choral works performed at Lehigh University, Princeton University Museum, Two times honor as an Artist-in-residence in Lehigh University music department.

• All India Radio State Competition Winner, Recorded Concert Solo Singer performing in ticketed concerts in the USA, India, France

• Recorded artist - Three albums of Indian classical-based devotional music, Lead Singer in Shanti Choir, a Jazz/Indian album

• Teaching Indian classical music for two decades

• Invited to play the tanpura on the stages of Maestros Ravi Shankar (sitar), Zakir Hussain Khan (tabla), Sultan Khan (sarangi) 

• Artist-in-residence at Lehigh University and composition piece (see A Woman Wept by the River link below).

• "Mangalam Bhavatu" - A Video dedicated to Global Genetics Community for their work in addressing rare genetic diseases.  It was premiered during the 2024 International Human Genetics Conference attended by more than 700 scientists.  This video was commissioned by IGHS; from concepts, compositions, singing, visual content, recording were done in the home-studio.

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Community Activism:  I offer sound and music facilitated healing and meditation sessions in congregations, public library, private gatherings,  I teach music to underprivileged tribal school students in India.  I have developed an on-line event platform to enable practitioners of yoga, music therapy, breathing, and healing arts to support COVID isolated people in communities in India.  I was in a steering team for advocating STEAM charter school for underprivileged local community of color in my region.  I participated in the Amnesty International (Strasbourg, France), Lehigh Valley Greens (USA), Habitat for Humanity (USA).

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Personal Interests:  Wilderness backpacking and hiking (longest being a 165 km trek in the Swiss Alps),  hand-built a tiny off-grid cabin, deep dives into world religions for converging pathways to peace and ecological integrity, and cultures and music, traveling, writing essays, composing and recording music.

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My husband, Prof. Joe Yukiich and I have lived in Pennsylvania for more than 3 decades and raised our family (two sons).