Lavina Shahani holds a Bachelors of Arts in Art History from The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Arts in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University. Lavina’s experience and interests in community-based cultural projects have been informed by her various work experience at both Museums and Not-for-Profit organizations. She has worked as a docent at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and as a project assistant at the Manchester Museum on the community engagement film series “Collective Conversations.” She has also been a development intern at New York’s Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and just recently finished a visual arts internship with VSA arts, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts working with artists with disabilities. Currently, Lavina has been appointed as the 5th Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean and is researching issues of communities and how this relationship is reshaped by the use of new technologies.
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