Working together

Would you like to discuss a collaborative working opportunity? Jhani would be happy to connect. Below are just some examples of the kinds of projects and programs they have worked on.

As part of their practice as an artist and social justice oriented community-weaver, Jhani works with writers, performers, social justice leaders, educators, and small arts organizations to:

Define flexible intentions and project goals, then to shape and share stories that animate their mission.

Illuminate intersections within and across stakeholder communities, while identifying new reach.
Tend to the gaps between project design and implementation, core intentions, and impact.

Approach projects with curiosity, transnational awarenesses, and anti-racist, root-centered perspectives in order to address, mediate, oppose, and prevent social bias and harmful language that is often reproduced and circulated in communications and media spaces.

Asian American Caucus at AWP in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2022.

Neela Banerjee at Kaya Press booth. AWP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2022. Photo by Jhani Randhawa.

(From left) Jhani Randhawa and team members of the Unicorn Authors Club and Narrative Initiative at Blue Mountain Center in Blue Lake, New York. September 2022.

(Actors from left) Joe Calarco, Poojah Shah, Nardeep Khurmi, and Aarón Alonso in stage production of Samsara by Lauren Yee, directed by Rebecca Wear at Met Theater in Los Angeles. December 2019–January 2020.

Stage set of Samsara by Lauren Yee, directed by Rebecca Wear at Met Theater in Los Angeles. December 2019–January 2020. Photo by Jhani Randhawa.

Kaya Press table at AWP San Antonio, Texas. March 2020.

Jhani has worked to achieve these goals as a consultant across performance, editorial, media and communications, event production, and client-based program development with organizations, individuals, and project-oriented collectives such as:

The Unicorn Authors Club; Narrative Initiative; Kaya Press (Los Angeles); Q. M. Zhang | MemoryWorks; May We Gather; Couerage Theatre Company (Los Angeles); the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at USC (Los Angeles); the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles); Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (New York), and Sarah Lawrence College’s annual Poetry Festival (New York).

(Media image) Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration exhibit and book release, co-presented by Kaya Press, The Japanese American National Museum, and the Shinso Ito Center of Japanese Religions and Culture. Designed by Sean Deyoe.

(From left) Duncan Ryuken Williams, Brian Niya, Valerie Matsumoto, and Naomi Hirahara at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. February 2019. Photo by Jhani Randhawa.

(Media image) May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors. Image designed by Rob Sato.

(From front to center) Dr. Trent Walker and Evan Kodani at the livestream station; Sunyoung Lee assisting with behind-the-scenes logistics. May We Gather ceremony at Hongwanji Temple in Los Angeles. Photo by Tauran Woo.

American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Duncan Ryuken Williams, Harvard University Press, 2019).

Tricycle magazine publications by Duncan Ryuken Williams.

As an indexer, imprint coordinator, publisher, reviewer, and developmental, commissioning, and copy editor across disciplines and genres, Jhani has worked with clients such as:

Dr. Gabriel Peoples; Kulhar Books (an imprint of Kaya Press); Dr. Duncan Ryuken Williams (USC Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture); Emily Anderson (Curator at the Japanese American National Museum); Ito Center Editions (an imprint of Kaya Press); Kaya Press; Dr. Teraya Paramehta; Dr. Anandi Rao; Sakina Ibrahim; rivulet; lambda nordica; Sexualities Journal; O BOD.

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