Dipti Desai

Dipti Desai is a Professor of Art and Art Education in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University where she teaches courses on socially engaged art practices and its politics, critical pedagogy and artistic activism as radical research. Her praxis-based pedagogy requires students to engage directly with communities and public spaces to envision and enact art activist projects. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on the intersection between art, social justice, and pedagogy.