Ranjani Varaghur is an educator who lives in Hudson, Ohio. She holds Master’s degrees in Environmental Sciences, GIS and in Business Administration. Ranjani is passionate about teaching and is the Center Director at Mathnasium and also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Akron.

In the past, she has also been a lecturer in Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She is a Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical) dancer and teaches the art form in the Greater Cleveland area. She has also taught Chinmaya Balvihar classes to young kids, which involved teaching about Indian heritage through stories and bhajans.

Ranjani firmly believes that art is the medium through which culture can be preserved and nourished. With a combination of Art, Business and Academia, Ranjani enjoys being a part of SaMaa arts which provides a platform to sustain classical art forms and hopes to do the best she can to continue the work of this organization.

Harish Ganapathy is a software engineer at Google Inc., Mountain View where he works on developing large-scale machine learning algorithms for YouTube. Harish holds a Master's degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Harish has trained in Indian Classical Music (Carnatic) for over three decades and has performed across North America and in India. Harish also teaches music in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is based. His other interests include playing in local Squash leagues.

Raghava Krishna, a multifaceted personality comes from a lineage of Composers and Musicians in South India. He is a Carnatic musician who performs Classical music and film music concerts in different parts of the world, apart from various Television and radio shows. He is a multifaceted artist who is also a 3D Animator and a magician.  

He currently works for Ubisoft, France and has been a part of various projects produced by studios like Asobo Studio, WB games, AMA Studios, Digital Alchemy and Pixar.  

He has also worked as a lecturer in Image College of Arts, Animation and Technology during which affiliated to the University of Wales.  

As a magician, he has performed his show 'Prophecy' in many countries and has also been closely associated with SaMaa arts and been a part of various events and operations as well.

Manasa Suresh is a science teacher and Carnatic vocalist by profession. As a Fulbright scholar in Carnatic music with undergraduate and graduate degrees in science and education, Manasa seeks to form meaningful connections between music, science, and education. She is passionate about advocating for and creating opportunities for deserving students and musicians, and is invested in creating safe and supportive learning and performance spaces in the arts.

Priya Balasubramaniyam, a masters degree holder in Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona, Tucson is a Hardware Applications Engineer at Intel Corporation and an ardent music lover. She has learnt Carnatic music throughout her childhood and continues to learn music until today. She also listens to and enjoys all kinds of music including Indian film music, Jazz and Western Classical music. In her spare time, she also collaborates with her friend to sing and create fusion music tracks.

Priya strongly believes that music can be used as therapy for all kinds of situations. She also believes that children benefit doubly by being exposed to music from an early age to balance out the left brain and right brain development.

With these causes and her musical background, she aims through SaMaa arts to expose and showcase the Indian music and arts she grew up loving, in a country which is her home now.