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Purvi Shah
Arts, Culture & Society GuestPurvi Shah sees art and social justice advocacy as portals for healing and transformation. With Charlene Allen, she currently co-facilitates the NYC Collaborative for Restoring Healing and Transforming Communities to address intimate violence with community approaches. Purvi is the winner of a South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her most recent poetry book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals. Purvi’s prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, Purvi directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project amplifying Asian American voices. With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual art prints. Her recent participatory art project, Green Card, explored the impact of a lack of green space on birds and people while inviting climate solutions from community members. Purvi has led convenings for women of color advocates and facilitated retreats for organizations ranging from the Center for Justice Innovation to Race Forward. She recently co-facilitated the Climate Justice Alliance’s 10th anniversary membership convening. As a facilitator and artist, Purvi brings two decades of hands-on, practical, and innovative equity, leadership, and training experience. Purvi relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice.
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