nisha purushotham

nisha purushotham (she/her) is a leadership coach, facilitator, and cultural worker with 30 years of movement building experience as an organizer, researcher, youth worker, grantwriter, and artist in residence. In her interdisciplinary practice, she integrates facilitative leadership frameworks and tools, popular education praxis, somatics, parts work, and sound and ancestral healing. nisha’s work is informed by the lens of healing justice, an abolitionist vision, and a deep trust in ancestral wisdom, our bodies’ intuition, and the natural intelligence of Land.

nisha joined the Interaction Institute for Social Change in 2017, becoming a certified trainer of the Facilitative Leadership for Social Change workshop in 2019. Over the past seven years, nisha has partnered with valued organizations and networks to strengthen their collaborative capacity to nurture and advance racial justice, health equity, climate resiliency, digital equity and representative and equitable governance structures. Recent and current organizational and network partners include: Alliance for Digital Equity, Wallace Center, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and Seeds of Peace.

nisha received her professional coaching certification from Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation (CHJL) in 2022 and serves on CHJL’s Wisdom Council which helps guide the coaching program’s priorities and presence. Her coaching primarily but not exclusively centers women and queer leaders of color working within grassroots communities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, foundations, and higher education institutions.

To learn more about nisha and what she is reflecting on and experimenting with, please visit www.nishapurushotham.com.