Chitra Srikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, educator, and writer with over three decades of global performance experience. She makes Indian music accessible through her thematic productions, workshops and courses, collaborates with diverse artists, and writes on topics at the intersection of music and society for different publications.  Chitra has performed on stage, on the radio, and on television across the world. Her classical albums include devotional poetry of the Tamil Alwars & Dasa mystics, thematic compositions on Rama and Hanuman, and live concert recordings. She has trained under several stalwarts in carnatic music such as Smt Seethalakshmi Venkatesan, Shri V.Subrahmanian, Shri O.S.Thyagarajan and Smt Lalgudi Rajalakshmi. As a musician and educator, her focus is on making Indian music accessible to a wider audience through workshops and thematic productions. Her work explores music as a living dialogue through thematic productions like Abhaya (women poets), Mukti (freedom), Pravaas (migration), Udaan (birds in poetry), and others that weave song, story, and imagery into immersive, multilingual experiences and have been well received by audiences in India and USA. Collaborations with poet Arundhathi Subramaniam, writer Shoba Narayan, & Hindustani musicians Shubhangi Sakhalkar, Rama Sundar Ranganathan, dancer Anuradha Venkataraman continue to shape this journey. As an educator Chitra explores how music shapes culture—through her lectures and courses at universities in Ahmedabad, Boston and Washington. At Ahmedabad University as adjunct professor of music she taught interdisciplinary courses such as Musical Traditions of India, How Music Shapes Cities: Varanasi to NYC, Bhakti and Music: Oral Tradition Radical Change. Chitra produced the Raga Ruminations podcast and RaagTime, a radio show on Indian music. Her essays which examine how music connects people & ideas have appeared in leading newspapers such as Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, Scroll, San Jose Mercury News, Sruti, and India Currents.