Anaka is a writer, curator and creative producer. Her education in law and journalism have grounded her work in media & the arts as trauma-informed and systems-focused.

 

She maintains a lifelong practice in theater and dance and has run a non-profit arts collective, Dear Imagination. 

 

Having embraced a number of curiosities with gusto, Anaka’s work isn’t bound by media or form. She thrives in long-term creative projects, engaging most deeply with culture, decoloniality, ecology and gender. 

 

She is equally comfortable working in audio, video and text, and has worked as passionately on independent projects as on branded content. Her clients include: Google, World Health Organization (WHO), Johnson & Johnson, MTV, Tata Power. She’s been published in New York Magazine, Vulture, The Cut, Kajal Magazine, Edible Hudson, BRIC Radio, Bedford & Bowery, National Geographic.​

 

In her second year now as Programming Director for ALT EFF, she curates films and non-film programs for diverse demographics pan-India and abroad, in the hopes of serving the best interests of people and the planet. She believes that traditional knowledge, community and culture are the bedrock of internationalist solidarities amidst existential threats.

 

In her downtime, she creates hurricanes of ceramics, ink, textile and lino art at her home studio.