Editor * Writing Instructor * Writer * Web-Content Generator
Contact me for your Writing/Editing Needs at:
[email protected]
617-680-6481 (cell)
Education
Ed.D. (June 2009), Culture, Communities, and Education [2003-2009], Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ed.M. Education. 2005. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
M.A. 2002. Sociology. Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.
B.A. 1998. Psychology. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University
Current Freelance Artistic/Educational/Writing (includes teaching/curriculum development, editing student work)
Theatre/Creative Writing Teaching Artist: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, New Conservatory Theater Center, San Carlos Children’s Theatre, Foster City Homeschool Group, Young Audiences of Northern California, Fogg Theatre.
Actor/Educator: Standardized Patient Program (UCSF, Samuel Merritt, Stanford)
Professional Actor, Writer (e.g., New Conservatory Theatre Center, SF Shakespeare Festival, Leela Improv, Roar Improv, Encinitas Library Theatre Series)
Academic Editing:
2005-2007: Editor/Booknotes Editor, Harvard Educational Review
Issue Co- Editor, Piper, B. & Rao, R. (Eds.). Harvard Educational Review, 76 (2).
Issue Co-Editor, Rao, R, Steele, J., & Venegas, K. (Eds), Harvard Educational Review, 77(1).
Academic Publications
Rao, R. (2008). Editors Review: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed & Kathleen Gallagher’s The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. Harvard Educational Review, 78(2).
Rao, R. (2007). Special Editor. Voices for Peace. Educators Respond to the Virginia Tech Shootings. Harvard Educational Review. 77(2).
DaSilva, C., Huguley, J.P., Kakli, Z., & Rao, R. (2007). The Opportunity Gap: Achievement and Inequality in Education. Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series. Harvard Educational Publishing Group.
Original Research/Selected Papers (Unpublished/Online)
Rao, R. (2007). The Whole American: Youth imaginations of citizenship and justice. Qualifying Paper. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Drama as a way of learning empathy. Independent Study. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Nonviolence in Gandhi, King, Mandela. Unpublished work. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Nonviolence and the Tibetan Struggle for Freedom. Unpublished work. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Research Assistant (involves transcription, editing, writing)
2010. San Diego Research Assistant. Teaching Artist Research Project, NORC at the University of Chicago (PI: Nick Rabkin)
2008. Organization of American States, Evaluation of programs for Democratic Citizenship (PI: Dr. Angela Bermudez).
2005. Usable Knowledge Project: Translating research into usable knowledge for HGSE website (PI: Dr. Joseph Blatt & Dr. Kurt Fischer)
2004. Project Assert: Data collection, analysis, and coding using HyperRESEARCH Software. (PIs: Dr. Wendy Luttrell & Dr. Janie Ward)
2004. Project Passion & Industry: Data transcription, analysis, and synopsis (PI: Dr. Jessica Davis).
Instructor (includes teaching/developing curriculum/developing webcontent, maintaining & facilitating online forums, editing/grading papers)
2010-2012: Instructor, VPA321: Integrating Arts in the Classroom, Visual and Performing
Arts Department, California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM).
2008. Harvard Graduate School of Education.S310M: Creative Empowerment: Engaging Youth in the Community through the Arts. Co-taught with Marit Dewhurst.
2008-2009. Instructor (Includes Editing Graduate Student Papers). Writing Center. Harvard Graduate School of Education
Teaching Fellow for Selected Courses (includes teaching/developing curriculum/developing webcontent, maintaining & facilitating online forums, editing/grading papers)
S-300: The Arts in Education: Learning in and through the Arts (Prof. Steve Seidel)
S-301: The Arts in Education: Research, Policy, and Practice (Prof. Steve Seidel)
S-522: Analyzing Culture: Dialogue, Discourse, and Theme (Prof. Helen Haste)
HT-123: Informing Learning for Children (Prof. Joseph Blatt)
S-710B: Participant Observation in Context (Prof. Vivian Louie [2004]; Prof Mary Casey [2005])
T-210B: Introduction to Curriculum Theory (Prof. Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez)
Conference Presentations/ Leadership
April 2008, Twelfth Night: American Politics, Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Engage, New York University. [Co-presenter: Maura Clarke]
September, 2006, Summer Justice Project, Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue: "Emerson and the Power of the Imagination” [Co-presenters: Betsy Bard and students from the Summer Justice Theatre Program].
October 2007. Theatre and space in education. Curriculum and Pedagogy Annual Conference.
March 2007, Art Chair, Blackboard project, Alumni of Color Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
February 2007. Space and place in theatre programs for youth citizenship education. Student Research Conference. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
September 2006. Theatre and Peace: The role of imagination in peace education. Ikeda Forum: Emerson and the Imagination. Boston Research Center for the 21st Century.
October 2005. Body-reading in Theatre: Conflict, literacy, and drama. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference.
February, 2005, Art Chair, Student Research Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
February 2004. Emerging methodologies in drama education research. Student Research Conference. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Non Academic Writing in the Field of Education/Arts
2013-2014: Interim Director of Arts Learning (included editing, developing web-content/quarterly newsletters, developing curriculum for teachers): Young Audiences of Northern California.
Summer 2013: Consultant and Teacher Trainer (Global Educational Academy, Los Angeles): Common Core and Arts Education Training.
2012: Writing Teacher Actor: Playwrights Project, San Diego.
2010-2012: Study Guide Developer/Teaching Artist, Student Matinee Program: The Old Globe, San Diego.
2011-2012. Drama Writer/Curriculum Developer/Teaching Artist, TELL: Theater for English Language Learners, CENTER ARTES, Maryland Elementary School, Vista, CA.
2011-2012: Writer/Actor, Roar Improv Theater, San Diego
2011-2012: Writer/Actor, Odds, Bobs, Hammer, and Tongs, San Diego.
2011- 2012: Literary Director, Encinitas Theatre Consortium
2009-2010. Drama Writer/Curriculum Developer/Teaching Artist, SUAVE program, TrioSSS (Social Justice & Equity Program) Center ARTES, San Diego.
2009-2011. Staff Writer, Website Content, Program Coordinator, Teaching Artist: Center ARTES, California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM)
2009-2011. Drama Curriculum Developer: Teaching Artist, My Story: Teaching Literacy & History through the Arts, California Center for the Arts, Escondido (CCAE)
Languages Spoken
English, Hindi, Urdu (First Language/Fluent spoken and written). Spanish (Basic, Conversational level)
Professional memberships
Theatre Bay Area, Leela Improv, American Association of Theatre Education; American Educational Research Association; Curriculum and Pedagogy; International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry; Peaceable Schools Institute; Theater Communications Group.
Current Board Membership
BreakArts, Fooniferse
Contact me for your Writing/Editing Needs at:
[email protected]
617-680-6481 (cell)
Education
Ed.D. (June 2009), Culture, Communities, and Education [2003-2009], Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ed.M. Education. 2005. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
M.A. 2002. Sociology. Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.
B.A. 1998. Psychology. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University
Current Freelance Artistic/Educational/Writing (includes teaching/curriculum development, editing student work)
Theatre/Creative Writing Teaching Artist: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, New Conservatory Theater Center, San Carlos Children’s Theatre, Foster City Homeschool Group, Young Audiences of Northern California, Fogg Theatre.
Actor/Educator: Standardized Patient Program (UCSF, Samuel Merritt, Stanford)
Professional Actor, Writer (e.g., New Conservatory Theatre Center, SF Shakespeare Festival, Leela Improv, Roar Improv, Encinitas Library Theatre Series)
Academic Editing:
2005-2007: Editor/Booknotes Editor, Harvard Educational Review
Issue Co- Editor, Piper, B. & Rao, R. (Eds.). Harvard Educational Review, 76 (2).
Issue Co-Editor, Rao, R, Steele, J., & Venegas, K. (Eds), Harvard Educational Review, 77(1).
Academic Publications
Rao, R. (2008). Editors Review: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed & Kathleen Gallagher’s The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. Harvard Educational Review, 78(2).
Rao, R. (2007). Special Editor. Voices for Peace. Educators Respond to the Virginia Tech Shootings. Harvard Educational Review. 77(2).
DaSilva, C., Huguley, J.P., Kakli, Z., & Rao, R. (2007). The Opportunity Gap: Achievement and Inequality in Education. Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series. Harvard Educational Publishing Group.
Original Research/Selected Papers (Unpublished/Online)
Rao, R. (2007). The Whole American: Youth imaginations of citizenship and justice. Qualifying Paper. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Drama as a way of learning empathy. Independent Study. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Nonviolence in Gandhi, King, Mandela. Unpublished work. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rao, R. (2004). Nonviolence and the Tibetan Struggle for Freedom. Unpublished work. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Research Assistant (involves transcription, editing, writing)
2010. San Diego Research Assistant. Teaching Artist Research Project, NORC at the University of Chicago (PI: Nick Rabkin)
2008. Organization of American States, Evaluation of programs for Democratic Citizenship (PI: Dr. Angela Bermudez).
2005. Usable Knowledge Project: Translating research into usable knowledge for HGSE website (PI: Dr. Joseph Blatt & Dr. Kurt Fischer)
2004. Project Assert: Data collection, analysis, and coding using HyperRESEARCH Software. (PIs: Dr. Wendy Luttrell & Dr. Janie Ward)
2004. Project Passion & Industry: Data transcription, analysis, and synopsis (PI: Dr. Jessica Davis).
Instructor (includes teaching/developing curriculum/developing webcontent, maintaining & facilitating online forums, editing/grading papers)
2010-2012: Instructor, VPA321: Integrating Arts in the Classroom, Visual and Performing
Arts Department, California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM).
2008. Harvard Graduate School of Education.S310M: Creative Empowerment: Engaging Youth in the Community through the Arts. Co-taught with Marit Dewhurst.
2008-2009. Instructor (Includes Editing Graduate Student Papers). Writing Center. Harvard Graduate School of Education
Teaching Fellow for Selected Courses (includes teaching/developing curriculum/developing webcontent, maintaining & facilitating online forums, editing/grading papers)
S-300: The Arts in Education: Learning in and through the Arts (Prof. Steve Seidel)
S-301: The Arts in Education: Research, Policy, and Practice (Prof. Steve Seidel)
S-522: Analyzing Culture: Dialogue, Discourse, and Theme (Prof. Helen Haste)
HT-123: Informing Learning for Children (Prof. Joseph Blatt)
S-710B: Participant Observation in Context (Prof. Vivian Louie [2004]; Prof Mary Casey [2005])
T-210B: Introduction to Curriculum Theory (Prof. Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez)
Conference Presentations/ Leadership
April 2008, Twelfth Night: American Politics, Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Engage, New York University. [Co-presenter: Maura Clarke]
September, 2006, Summer Justice Project, Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue: "Emerson and the Power of the Imagination” [Co-presenters: Betsy Bard and students from the Summer Justice Theatre Program].
October 2007. Theatre and space in education. Curriculum and Pedagogy Annual Conference.
March 2007, Art Chair, Blackboard project, Alumni of Color Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
February 2007. Space and place in theatre programs for youth citizenship education. Student Research Conference. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
September 2006. Theatre and Peace: The role of imagination in peace education. Ikeda Forum: Emerson and the Imagination. Boston Research Center for the 21st Century.
October 2005. Body-reading in Theatre: Conflict, literacy, and drama. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference.
February, 2005, Art Chair, Student Research Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
February 2004. Emerging methodologies in drama education research. Student Research Conference. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Non Academic Writing in the Field of Education/Arts
2013-2014: Interim Director of Arts Learning (included editing, developing web-content/quarterly newsletters, developing curriculum for teachers): Young Audiences of Northern California.
Summer 2013: Consultant and Teacher Trainer (Global Educational Academy, Los Angeles): Common Core and Arts Education Training.
2012: Writing Teacher Actor: Playwrights Project, San Diego.
2010-2012: Study Guide Developer/Teaching Artist, Student Matinee Program: The Old Globe, San Diego.
2011-2012. Drama Writer/Curriculum Developer/Teaching Artist, TELL: Theater for English Language Learners, CENTER ARTES, Maryland Elementary School, Vista, CA.
2011-2012: Writer/Actor, Roar Improv Theater, San Diego
2011-2012: Writer/Actor, Odds, Bobs, Hammer, and Tongs, San Diego.
2011- 2012: Literary Director, Encinitas Theatre Consortium
2009-2010. Drama Writer/Curriculum Developer/Teaching Artist, SUAVE program, TrioSSS (Social Justice & Equity Program) Center ARTES, San Diego.
2009-2011. Staff Writer, Website Content, Program Coordinator, Teaching Artist: Center ARTES, California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM)
2009-2011. Drama Curriculum Developer: Teaching Artist, My Story: Teaching Literacy & History through the Arts, California Center for the Arts, Escondido (CCAE)
Languages Spoken
English, Hindi, Urdu (First Language/Fluent spoken and written). Spanish (Basic, Conversational level)
Professional memberships
Theatre Bay Area, Leela Improv, American Association of Theatre Education; American Educational Research Association; Curriculum and Pedagogy; International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry; Peaceable Schools Institute; Theater Communications Group.
Current Board Membership
BreakArts, Fooniferse