Shaalini Stone joined CICAU’s Board of Directors in October of 2022 and became Chair in January of 2023. A long-time nonprofit volunteer, her most recent role in the sector was in external affairs, development, and communications for a local mental health nonprofit in Maryland. Previously, she spent over a decade in production and programming for the international networks of Warner Bros. Discovery and helped produce a series for PBS produced by Ted Turner Documentaries. She has also been an adjunct professor of art history at Parsons School of Design, in both the New York and Paris locations. Shaalini has spent her entire career in education, media, and the nonprofit sector fostering cultural understanding through art, storytelling, and documentaries, and she remains an advocate for equitable access to information and services. She strongly believes that exposure to differences, especially at a young age, can impact the trajectory of a young child’s curiosity, cultural awareness, and world view, thereby increasing tolerance, lowering heated discourse, and changing our world for the better one child at a time.
Shaalini holds a Ph.D. in Art & Architectural History from Columbia University, and a B.A. from McGill University. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for her doctoral research in Ethiopia and an Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotary Foundation for diplomacy and language studies in Paris, France.
