She holds a B.A. in PPE [Philosophy, Politics & Economics] from University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University & a Master of Design from University of Pennsylvania.  She is also trained as a classical pianist & studied with Solomon Mikowsky & Byron Janis in New York City.

  Between 2010-2015, she taught as a design professor at Drury University, a liberal arts college in Midwest America, where she taught not only design majors, but also students across all majors in direct engagement with urgent issues of our time.  Since 2015, she has been based in Berlin & continued to teach online — against the backdrop of refugee crisis in Europe, the shifting ethos & increasing polarization in America & the rise of populism & crisis of liberal democracy around the globe — engaging students in critical analysis of WHERE WE STAND NOW & social visioning of HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
   She is the leading authority on the subject of MULTICULTURALISM, inserting analytic insight on HOW we can rise up to the challenges of creating a multicultural democracy in the 21C. In 2020, she published a collection of 24 personal & critical essays, A SOCIETY FULL OF MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUALS, which uses her own experience of immigration to America at the age of thirteen as a critical frame for illuminating the issue of multiculturalism both in the context of Europe & America. She is the founder of MULTICULTURAL CHALLENGE, the SPACE for CRITICAL ANALYSIS & SOCIAL VISIONING that clarifies shared ideals & generates shared vision forward.