About

About

Priyanha Nadanasabesan (she/they) is an artist and community death doula based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice expands collective approaches to community care at the intersection of healthcare systems, spiritual well-being, and creative expression.

Their current work includes facilitating containers for grief, death, and creativity, such as community altars, grief support sessions, and art-based processing offerings. Priyanha is also a Communications and Development Coordinator at Brooklyn Arts Council and supports its mission to sustainably resource local artists, cultural workers, and arts organizations to thrive independently and together.

Priyanha’s work centers collective liberation values with an understanding of the systemic violence that impacts end-of-life experiences for People of the Global Majority. Her mission is to create non-judgmental, safe, and empowering spaces to explore death, loss, artistic freedom, and authenticity.

Priyanha received her MPH in Community Health from CUNY in 2021. Their education focused on harm reduction strategies for community care where individuals’ autonomy and dignity are honored in their healthcare decisions. She was a Program and Development Manager at End of Life Choices New York. They completed their Community End-of-Life Advocate Training certification and developed diverse programming on holistic end-of-life care. She has also completed her End of Life doula training with the International End Of Life Doula Association. In 2022, Priyanha became a grant recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program and co-founded AMMOR Collective, a QTBIPOC artist hub in Bushwick-Brooklyn.

Priyanha is also an interdisciplinary artist who uses multiple mediums to express abstract self-portraits of her inner (outer) world. Their main artist themes include re-imagining the first-generation experience, cycles of death and rebirth, grief as transformation, metaphysical workings to affirm one’s wholeness, and dark humor to soften our shadow work. Priyanha is community-made, and community empowerment is central to all her offerings and artistic creations.