Staff
Aparna Ramaswamy
Executive Artistic Director
612.824.1968
aparna@ragamaladance.org
Ashwini Ramaswamy
Choreographic Associate + Director of Communications
718.483.4102 (c)
ashwini@ragamaladance.org
Garvin Jellison
Company Manager
garvin@ragamaladance.org
Sandra Dietel
Development and Communications Associate
sandra@ragamaladance.org
Jothika Gorur
Education and Outreach Coordinator
jothika@ragamaladance.org
Ranee Ramaswamy
Founder and Founding Artistic Director
612.824.1968
ranee@ragamaladance.org
Tamara Nadel
Director of Operations
612.964.9213 (c)
tamara@ragamaladance.org
Andy Smith
Development Advisor and Grantwriter
grants@ragamaladance.org
Patricia Starks-Faggétt
Bookkeeper
patricia@ragamaladance.org
Booking Agent
Elsie Management
Laura Colby, President
Anna Amadei, Vice President
laurac@elsieman.org | annaa@elsieman.org | 718.797.4577
www.elsieman.org
Board of Directors
Marguerite Ahmann, Vice President
Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Minneapolis, MN
Nithya Balakrishnan Mathad, Board Secretary
Program Manager, Abbott
Shoreview, MN
Jeanine Holden
Associate Director of Program Design,
Stanford Center on Philanthropy & Civil Society
Saint Paul, MN
Ashvini Naidu
Associate Director, Audible
Culver City, CA
Veena Padmanabhan
Independent Consultant
Redondo Beach, CA
Serra Pradhan
Principal, Serra Pradhan Fine Art, Ltd.
New York, NY
Aparna Ramaswamy
Executive Artistic Director, Ragamala Dance Company
Minneapolis, MN
Ranee Ramaswamy
Co-Artistic Director, Ragamala Dance Company
Minneapolis, MN
Rama Ranganathan
Joseph Regenstein Professor and Director, The Center for the Physics of Evolving Systems, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
John Riske, Board President
Senior Marketing Consultant
Oakland, CA
Shilpa Shinde-Garg
Hospitalist, Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Noel Stave
Chief Technology Officer, RBC Clearing & Custody
Roseville, MN