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Deepthi Welaratna is a New York-based writer and researcher focusing on media and culture. As a strategic communications consultant, Deepthi has directed state- and nation-wide marketing and communications strategies for a range of nonprofit and for-profit companies. Previously, she spent three years managing national and multinational market research studies focusing on the digital citizen. She has worked in radio and TV broadcasting and authors an arts and culture review column for KQED in San Francisco covering music, theatre and film. Recently, she was invited to serve as a judge for the Asian Pacific Fund’s Growing Up Asian in America, an annual art and essay competition for Bay Area k-12 students.
Currently
I am working on my MA in Media Studies at The New School University. Related projects include:
> Thesis research on how media influences transnational identity
> Video art on the Romanian Revolution of 1989 with Disparition
> Teaching English language class on Media, Entertainment and Culture at the International Center of New York
> Organizing Committee, 10th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference
> Theoretical Inquiries and Research with Laura Forlano, Terry Williams, and Marina Zurkow
> Music Blogger, MixTape at KQED
