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Indira Etwaroo shows her love of igniting a conversation, by any means necessary!  Dr. Etwaroo is an accomplished professor and scholar of cultural studies and arts pedagogy, with a current adjunct professorship at Temple University.  She has fostered conversations through humanitarian work, including as a Fulbright Scholar working a year in Ethiopia with a group of refugee Somali women and children.  Upon her return to the United States, Indira oversaw some of the most notable education and humanities’ programming in America at the acclaimed Brooklyn Academy of Music, including Shakespeare Teaches and DanceAfrica.   And perhaps most viscerally, her many years as a theater director, dancer and choreographer have brought direct engagement with art to audience conversations.   

Indira joined WNYC Radio on September 11, 2006.  She’s continued to foster conversation through the launch of signature series including A New Theater of Sound, A Global Salon, and everyone’s favorite hit party: The Battle of the Boroughs.  Recognitions and awards for her work include a National Research Award from the Congress in Dance;  BAM’s Dance Africa Council of Elders Service Award; the Education and Community Heritage Award from Bed-ford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. and the National Forty under 40 Dynamic Achiever’s Award from the Network Journal.   Indira Etwaroo has a Ph.D, in Cultural Studies from Temple University and Master’s in Arts Education, as well as a Bachelor's in Classical Flute Performance from Longwood University.  Her prize creative accomplishment is her 9-year-old daughter Zenzele, whose name hails out of the Apartheid movement in the Southern Region of Africa and means: “Self Reliance”.   Favorite Greene Space Show:  “I can’t choose.”