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Kavya's Bio
Kavya is a media artist and activist with a background in journalism, documentary film, and a BA in Gender and Women's Studies. She is the Founder of Agitate Productions, a media arts collective that focuses on community youth engagement and activism by creating space for stories told through art.
She has worked on a variety of projects centered around community engagement and activism the latest of which has been as an artist facilitator for a community mural project with Art Not Shame and director for the Moving Histories documentary project about stories from her neighbourhood of West Willow Woods in Guelph. She was also a digital storytelling facilitator with the Re•Vision Center for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph.
She began the Leaders of Today (LOT) program because of her fundamental belief that young people have meaningful stories to share and the capacity to create change through those stories. Growing up as an immigrant child at 85 Willow Road in Guelph she was raised by her community. They taught her what community responsibility was and that she always had the capacity to create change for and in her community. She hopes through the LOT program to offer this same sense of community to the young people in our city today and support them in sharing their stories and helping them to create the change they wish to see in their world.
Note from Nadia
Kavya Yogananthan is one of the most inspiring youth facilitators I know. I’ve been hearingabout her work with Leaders of Today since we started facilitating together in 2021, and I havebeen absolutely blown away by her ability to create vibrant, intense, deep and joyous spaces foryoung people to express themselves through the arts. Kavya and I run a yearly programtogether for Art Not Shame, called Rest and Resilience, and it’s there that I’ve experienced hergenerous, hilarious and gentle style of facilitation. In this podcast you’ll hear her story, and herincredible storytelling ability, draw all the threads together that led to the inspiration for Leadersof Today.She is currently recording a series of videos for Toolsi that will articulate the methodology forLeaders of Today, for the very first time. I know you’ll find this podcast as riveting and inspiringas I did!
The Adaptagen Podcast is part of the Toolsi facilitation training platform hosted by Nadia Chaney. Go tohttps://facilitate.toolsi.ca
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By Nadia ChaneyKavya's Bio
Kavya is a media artist and activist with a background in journalism, documentary film, and a BA in Gender and Women's Studies. She is the Founder of Agitate Productions, a media arts collective that focuses on community youth engagement and activism by creating space for stories told through art.
She has worked on a variety of projects centered around community engagement and activism the latest of which has been as an artist facilitator for a community mural project with Art Not Shame and director for the Moving Histories documentary project about stories from her neighbourhood of West Willow Woods in Guelph. She was also a digital storytelling facilitator with the Re•Vision Center for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph.
She began the Leaders of Today (LOT) program because of her fundamental belief that young people have meaningful stories to share and the capacity to create change through those stories. Growing up as an immigrant child at 85 Willow Road in Guelph she was raised by her community. They taught her what community responsibility was and that she always had the capacity to create change for and in her community. She hopes through the LOT program to offer this same sense of community to the young people in our city today and support them in sharing their stories and helping them to create the change they wish to see in their world.
Note from Nadia
Kavya Yogananthan is one of the most inspiring youth facilitators I know. I’ve been hearingabout her work with Leaders of Today since we started facilitating together in 2021, and I havebeen absolutely blown away by her ability to create vibrant, intense, deep and joyous spaces foryoung people to express themselves through the arts. Kavya and I run a yearly programtogether for Art Not Shame, called Rest and Resilience, and it’s there that I’ve experienced hergenerous, hilarious and gentle style of facilitation. In this podcast you’ll hear her story, and herincredible storytelling ability, draw all the threads together that led to the inspiration for Leadersof Today.She is currently recording a series of videos for Toolsi that will articulate the methodology forLeaders of Today, for the very first time. I know you’ll find this podcast as riveting and inspiringas I did!
The Adaptagen Podcast is part of the Toolsi facilitation training platform hosted by Nadia Chaney. Go tohttps://facilitate.toolsi.ca