Radha Ramaswamy
Radha Ramaswamy is a practitioner and trainer of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), a participatory theatre pedagogy widely used across the world for social and personal change. Following her training in Theatre of the Oppressed at the Seattle-based Mandala Center for Change, Radha founded the Centre for Community Dialogue and Change (CCDC) in Bangalore in 2011. CCDC is committed to making this powerful and versatile tool for creative change accessible to individuals and communities everywhere. To this end Radha offers workshops and trainings across different cities in India and abroad, working with students, teachers, health professionals, women’s groups, senior citizens, and other communities of people. She has collaborated with many institutions of higher learning on theatre-based projects, and presented papers and conducted workshops in several conferences on education, teacher training, and mental health.