Nandita Batheja

Nandita Batheja (she/they) is a facilitator, artist, question-asker and community weaver who works across sectors, advocating for justice, liberation and creative being. They believe imagination is crucial to change-work and that play is freedom’s underdog. Traveling between the worlds of education, nonprofits, artist residencies and decentralized movement spaces, Nandita has followed a life-long desire to tend to these questions: How do we build ecologies of right relationship and spiritual bravery in our relationships, actions, systems and creations? What is it to live the world we are dreaming, to every-day-it into existence? These questions and more are what guided Nandita to YES! and their current work in the world.

In addition to Jams, Nandita studies and practices the somatics of living, aging & dying to help herself and others navigate these tumultuous times. Nandita also facilitates with Equal Justice USA, leads InterPlay, and recently co-founded (with two other Jammers!) the Stingray Virtual Artist Residency – an international community art residency that encourages individuals to stand strong in their not-for-capital creative intelligence, and to mutually support each other’s artistic journeys. Nandita is currently based in San Diego, with roots reaching to New York, India, Indonesia, the-in-between and the sky.