MONICA SINGH SANGWAN
My name is Monica Singh Sangwan, and Hold a Master’s degree in Social Policy from the University of Melbourne .I am also the Founder and Artistic Director of Sohamasmi Center for Performing Arts, with a vision for creating affordable art performances accessible to everyone in the community. In 2010 I started the non-profit organisation that has been instrumental for bringing together artists, thinkers and creatives from different backgrounds to perform for the community and create a space of sharing, cultural bonding and nurture. Presently I teach at the Dance House in Melbourne training women and children from varied ethnic backgrounds.
I am a person deeply passionate about the human condition and have used my tool as an artist to reach out to women from all walks of life. How do my profession and education tie-up with policy work? Policy, according to me, is a highly creative ability to address real-time issues while staying idealistic and practical. Policymaking requires experience that comes from having one’s ear to the ground and feeling the pulse of people’s needs and requirements.
Policy is highly complex and challenging, and my background gives me the edge or experience, versatility, out of the box thinking and application of creative outcomes that are not taught in a university course. They come from a life lived through gaining experience amongst people from varied backgrounds.
The ability to make a career jump from arts to policy requires immense courage, hard work and vision to where one wants to take their career. The present times now need people to invest in more than one career skill set, which in turn compliments the overall workspace, skill and work culture. Policy writing is not about a top-down approach, and it works best when it comes from down up and works as an osmosis effect bringing with its depth, integrity, research-based on factual objectives and the ability to adjust itself to changing needs and times.
I am a person deeply passionate about the human condition and have used my tool as an artist to reach out to women from all walks of life. How do my profession and education tie-up with policy work? Policy, according to me, is a highly creative ability to address real-time issues while staying idealistic and practical. Policymaking requires experience that comes from having one’s ear to the ground and feeling the pulse of people’s needs and requirements.
Policy is highly complex and challenging, and my background gives me the edge or experience, versatility, out of the box thinking and application of creative outcomes that are not taught in a university course. They come from a life lived through gaining experience amongst people from varied backgrounds.
The ability to make a career jump from arts to policy requires immense courage, hard work and vision to where one wants to take their career. The present times now need people to invest in more than one career skill set, which in turn compliments the overall workspace, skill and work culture. Policy writing is not about a top-down approach, and it works best when it comes from down up and works as an osmosis effect bringing with its depth, integrity, research-based on factual objectives and the ability to adjust itself to changing needs and times.
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