Puneeta Kala is an East Asianist who specialized in Japanese studies. She holds one M.Phil and three MA degrees with the most recent from Harvard University. She has taught courses on comparative religion at Harvard University, the University of Vermont and the University of San Francisco and has been involved in a number of programming and fund-raising initiatives at Harvard and elsewhere.
Padma Dorje Maitland is the Associate Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines modern South Asia through transnational networks, travel literature, and the history of emotions. His curatorial work centers artists and their practices while critically engaging histories of display, representation, and migration. Previously, he served as the Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum, following curatorial roles at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the...
Anna Chek-Wing Wong is an undergrad student studying history and minoring music at UC Berkeley. She graduated from San Francisco’s Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and achieved the Piano Excellence Award. During her free time, she likes to practice piano and dance.
