Ramya Ranganathan Srinivas

Biography

Ramya Ranganathan Srinivas is a dancer, choreographer, and guru trained in Devanrityam and Bharatanatyam, and the founder of YADA. She serves as creative arts director of Amba Anandeswari Kalalaya's AZ wing, training the next generation of performers, while working professionally as a Validation Architect at Intel. Moved by talented young artists dropping out during high school, she launched the youth showcase Jagadananda Karaka in 2015, which grew into YADA — a nonprofit blending Indian classical arts training with continuous performance opportunity for youth.