Nayantara Premakumar

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Founder & Lead

ChainLink Strategy

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

I founded ChainLink Strategy to explore the need for our collective dreaming for liberation. ChainLink Strategy offers organizational dreaming & strategizing, thought partnership, training, coaching, and workshops. I am currently taking on coaching clients till the end of the year!

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Mission-Forward Strategist

ChainLink Studios

Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 8 months)

As the lead consultant at ChainLink Studios, I bring my wide-ranging experience to help values-led organizations build infrastructure, create development and communications strategies, and forge new paths. ChainLink Studio's mission is to collaborate with organizations, communities, and individuals to build new futures by utilizing a strategic and equity-based lens rooted in our relationships with each other. Our team is at the intersection of social impact, racial equity, and innovation. We provide emergent strategies and processes that rise up to meet an exciting and dynamic social and racial landscape. ChainLink Studios is rooted in a values-based approach because we want to shift how we do this work - collaboration over competition, tra

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Founder/Editor

Writers Workshop Editing Experts

Sep 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 5 months)

Founder and Editor at a high-level collaborative for Resumes, CVs, Cover Letters, Personal Essays, Professional Projects, Academic Work, and Translation Work.

Executive Director/ Co-Founder

Sunayra Lanka

Jan 2015 - Jan 2020 (5 years 1 month)

Sunayra’s mission is to use the arts to heal and empower. We provide tools for young people to exercise their creativity, amplify their voices, and become the drivers of their own futures. Inspired by personal experiences in Sri Lanka, I ideated, founded, and proposed the organization to onboard co-founders, partners, and donors to build a functional non-profit from the seed of an idea.

Managing Editor

Culture Stories

Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)

An online magazine and concept shop bringing an anthropological lens to arts, culture, and curation. I worked with a leadership team of fellow anthropologists to translate complex anthropological concepts into engaging and relevant pieces for a global audience.

LankaCorps Fellow

The Asia Foundation

Jun 2013 - Feb 2014 (9 months)

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Creative Lead

REDLIME A Research and Design Company

Jan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year 1 month)

As Sri Lanka’s only research and design firm, REDLIME specializes in creating effective communication strategies and in delivering powerful messages that speak, move and excite. I was given responsibility across a myriad of projects, from research, to proposals, to design, and filmmaking. This gave me the opportunity to create and promote cross-departmental cooperation and implement an inclusion-based approach to all projects.

Production and Video Editor/Project Manager

Teach For All

Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 (1 year 1 month)

In-house promotional videos for Teach for All posted to the Teach for All and Teach First organizations network. The videos were used globally as peer-to-peer educational material for the teachers within the organizations to illustrate, learn, and utilize new teaching techniques. These videos also functioned as promotional material for partners and project stakeholders.

Cultural Consultant in Technology, Business, and Medicine

Villanova University

Jan 2010

The TeleHealth program enables Community Health Workers to have real-time communication with a centralized healthcare provider to meet the health needs of the members of their remote, rural communities in Nicaragua. Trained teams on culturally informed and sensitive approaches to medical decision making, technological relationships, and community business practices to bridge the gap between community needs and university resources.

Contract Researcher

IHS Global Insight

Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)

In charge of researching new and developing technologies as a supplement for a presentation. Educated sales staff and end economists on technologies to be presented to the Korean Institute of Economics and Trade

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