Nina Mehta is a community educator and co-director of PARCEO from New York City. She has taught in public schools in NYC and Durham, NC, at NYU and Boricua College, and has been part of many alternative and participatory education projects. She works with a wide range of groups on collaborative research, rethinking ethnography, cultural, and media projects and facilitates workshops and events. She supports groups as they work through their internal processes and facilitates workshops and large-scale events to elevate participatory, creative, and horizontal engagement. She comes from families that are first generation Bombay Jain immigrants, and longtime New York City Jewish educators and social justice advocates.