Work With Indu
I believe the conversations this book opens are most alive when they happen in community — in schools, in temples, in community centers, in conference halls, in classrooms. If you want to bring this work to your school, district, organization, or community, I'd love to hear from you.
The work we do together is not about blame. It is not about guilt or shame or calling anyone out. It begins from the belief that most educators are good people who want to do right by their students, and that what stands between good intentions and good practice is usually not malice but a kind of inherited not-seeing. Curriculum carries assumptions that are often under-examined. Traditions get filtered through gazes that weren’t always honest about their agendas.
Most teachers simply weren't given the tools to see any of this. What I offer is those tools and a particular orientation toward using them. I draw from the Hindu philosophical tradition, which holds that knowing yourself more clearly helps you understand the world more clearly, and that genuine understanding is both a civic discipline and a form of right action. The question I bring into every session is not "Who is responsible for this?" but "What skill can I bring to this moment? What can I do right now, with the students in front of me?"
My goal is for the people I work with to leave not with a burden but with agency. A clearer way of seeing. A more honest relationship with their curriculum, their schools, their students. And practices they can use tomorrow.
What the Work Looks Like
Every session — whether in a school, a community organization, or a bookstore — is built around four honest questions that help participants examine whose perspective is centered in the spaces they inhabit, what gets left out, and what becomes possible when we learn to understand more honestly. These aren't gotcha questions. They're the beginning of a different kind of inquiry — one that leads to specific, actionable shifts any person or organization can make right now, in this moment, with the people in front of them.
Ways We Can Work Together
Professional development for schools and districts
For educators and curriculum teams
Half-day workshops and multi-session partnerships that help educators examine their curriculum honestly. Grounded in the research behind Hindu at Heart and designed to be practically useful, politically navigable, and rooted in inquiry.
Keynotes and conference speaking
For education conferences, universities, interfaith and cultural organizations
A keynote introducing the research and the philosophical orientation behind Hindu at Heart and what a Hindu analytical approach can offer conversations about belonging, representation, and viewpoint diversity that have largely been shaped by other traditions.
University and teacher education programs
For schools of education, graduate programs, and research partnerships
Guest lectures, course integration, and research partnerships. Hindu at Heart is appropriate for syllabi in curriculum theory, foundations of education, social studies methods, multicultural education, and educational research.
Community workshops
For temples, parent groups, cultural organizations, and civic groups
Interactive workshops exploring belonging, perspective, and what it means to navigate the space between home and the wider world. Conversational, accessible, and grounded in the stories and frameworks from the book. No prior knowledge of education scholarship required.
For book clubs, libraries, community reading groups, and cultural centers
A guided conversation around Hindu at Heart for groups who have read the book together and want to go deeper, or for communities exploring these questions for the first time. Available in person or virtually.
Book events or facilitated conversations
All inquiries on this page are for professional and organizational engagements. Not sure which form fits? Either one is fine! Just tell me a little about what you have in mind. I read every message and respond personally.