SINI STEPHAN

Sini Stephan is an educator, activist, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) practitioner. A native New Yorker, Sini formerly functioned as the Program Manager of NYC GREAT! under the NYC Department of Education's Office of Equity and Access designing professional development training for city leaders rooted in critical race theory. 

Her work as an alumna of the Indicorps Fellowship program and former President of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Association at Seton Hall University cultivated her scholarship in anti-opression work. This work positioned her to serve as a board member of Adelante Student Voices for undocumented youth and become a founding member of Malayalees for Social Justice, a grassroots organization committed to advancing the rights of the global majority. Sini has been a recurring panelist on The Grapevine TV and formerly contributed as a writer for Brown Girl Magazine and Her Agenda. During the Biden Harris presidential campaign, Sini served as a national speaker for the Malayalee diaspora under South Asians for Biden, Indians for Biden National Council. 

Using art as a medium for our collective liberation, you may also find Sini singing to the rhythms of Carnatic and R&B music while also taking the stage in movement as a South Indian Classical Dancer of both Mohiniyattam and Kathakali disciplines, classical art forms that are unique to the South Indian state of Kerala.