Nandini Ranganathan, Ph.D., is a futurist, educator, technologist, and sensemaker. She is the founder of CETI - A Creative and Emerging Technology Institute (ceti.institute). Nandini creates messy participatory interdisciplinary convenings and collaborative creative experiments around social, technological, and environmental challenges, catalysts for imaginative innovations that emerge from unexpected collisions of people, practices, and ideas (see her talk at TEDx Portland 2019) for the potential and power of these gatherings. She is deeply passionate about increasing access to and opportunities in art, science, technology and mathematics.
Prior to this Nandini created Make+Think+Code, an art/technology lab at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she was a Professor and Chair of Liberal Arts. She has served on the faculty at Washington State University, Vancouver, Reed College and University of Texas at Austin, designed teacher-training curriculum in yoga, and translated ancient yoga and mathematics manuscripts. She has a PhD. (and M.S.) in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and an A.B. in Mathematics from Wellesley College.
She pauses with a tinge of confusion and sadness when she checks “I am not a robot” on the many online forms, wondering …