Ria (Ariana) DasGupta, EdD, is the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Initiatives at The Juilliard School. She has over a decade of teaching and administrative experience in higher education. Prior to her current role, she served as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer for Academic Affairs and Community Outreach at Georgian Court University. Ria was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Francisco where she also served in the institutional equity office. As Interim Assistant Dean for First and Second Year Programs at Douglass Residential College (Rutgers University), she oversaw the college’s first year mission course and a globally-focused living-learning community. Ria earned her doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on the role of neoliberalism in shaping higher education DEI efforts. A kathak dancer, Ria brings more than 30 years of ballet, modern, capoeira, bharatanatyam, and Rabindrik training to her role as a faculty member for The Leela Academy and an ensemble dancer with The Leela Dance Collective.