Dishebh is a perfectionist - but the kind that believes perfection lies in being imperfect. It’s difficult. He recognizes his own limits of creative freedom as a graphic designer and hence envies artists who don't. He dreams of opening his own multi-disciplinary design studio dedicated to everyone who wants to earn good money doing what they like while he serves complimentary cups of tea to visitors in his cafe. You can see some of his work here at http://behance.net/dishebh Passion: Graphic Design, Doodles, Kathmandu, Dogs and The Quantum Theory of Thoughts Contact for: Quick mental math and who’s-that-footballer-who-? Contact: hbehsid@gmail.com

Salya is managing the all new branch of Sattya called Sattya Inc. Sattya Inc is Kathmandu’s first full service non-profit creative agency, connecting young artists and media creators with businesses. Salya has worked as an independent for several years in Switzerland where she opening her own web agency and continues the human relation job here in Sattya Inc. She is also a web & print designer and loves everything related to arts. Her dad use to say: “She is a zero in music but I’m sure her art skills will build her future”. Her secret wish: Open her own furniture brand. Website : http://inc.sattya.org Contact : salya@sattya.org

Shreyans is a bonafide geek, musing IT-related technology since high school. A graduate in Information Science, his expertise lies in maximizing the utility of available technologies and acquiring fresh innovations of the tech world. The ‘insides’ of certain hardware give him a peculiar aesthetic pleasure and a chance to prematurely break a warranty-seal can actually excite him. Even his diversions include putting definitions in urbandictionary.com and reading internet memes. Although Shreyans believes he is socially-challenged, he feels he could be a good comedian. Don’t miss his moves if you are at a salsa party! Passion: Music/culture from the 60′s, Vipassana meditation, Salsa dancing, playing action-adventure games on his PS3 Contact for: Productivity solutions, Salsa parties, Private meditations Contact: shreyans@sattya.org

Sara has spent 6+ years traveling and working as a multimedia advocacy journalist around the world. She believes strongly that advocacy journalism can help create positive change. She works for non-profits that are doing genuine work, documenting their process through photojournalism, videography and multimedia. Helping a worthy non-profit reap the benefits of compelling documentary exposure is her goal in life. She generally just wants to use her multimedia skills to help others around the world. You can see some of her work here at http://www.saraholcombe.com. Passion: Women’s Rights, Asia (Nepal : ), Reading, Documentaries, FOOD Contact for: Photojournalism, Documentary Videography, Web Design, Print Design Contact: sara@sattya.org

Yuki is a social activist, an entrepreneur, a development worker, and most of all a believer of good human spirit. After studying in the United States, she’s back to her home town to be a part of the buzzing vibrant culture that she left behind. In that course, she started Cuppas- a coffee shop that promotes locally brewed coffee, and provides youth a space to explore their talents. She is a big fan of expression, and feels that everyone should be empowered enough to express themselves, be it through words, lens or other artistic means. She can’t get enough of Kathmandu traffic because of “the structure in chaos” that it represents, and be seen in the road riding her red scooty that she adores. Passion: Social justice, rural development, innovative ideas, travelling, and the list goes on. Contact for: Collaboration on media activism, innovative projects, story ideas. Contact: yuki@sattya.org

Anya, co-founder of Sattya, is a photojournalist and aspiring documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on social justice and human stories, with a strong interest in indigenous cultures, subcultures, and ‘modernization.’ Born in Ukraine, she grew up in New York, but has been connected to Nepal since 2003. Anya is passionate about empowering people through photography and video, especially youth. She finds teaching to be the most difficult and rewarding thing ever. See her work at www.anyaunknown.com and dalbhattarkari.com. Passion: Film making/Photography that tells a story/Street art/Blogging/DIY projects Contact for: Collaboration on films/Culture jamming & guerrilla art/Mentoring/Story ideas/ If you can edit film! Contact: anya@sattya.org

Suraj Ratna Shakya is the Media Manager of Sattya. Like his name suggests, he’s brought brightness to our office with his amazing photography skills. He has 18K followers on instagram (follow him, if you haven’t already). At the office, he’s helping out with documenting Kolor Kathmandu, and regular Sattya events. If you want a go-to-person to make you laugh, and get your amazing shots, he’s the right man for you! Personal Work: www.instagram.com/surajshakya http://vimeo.com/surajratnashakya 500px.com/surajshakya Passionate about: Travelling, making tea (seriously!), doing fun videos. Contact for: Making tea (of course!), doing fun video projects, or photo projects.

Swati is a Chartered Accountant of ICAN (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal). Joined as a Accounting Consultant in Sattya but is eager to learn more about photography, documentaries, graphic designs, illustration and other media stuffs. She is energetic and loves music, reading and travelling. Contact for: Accounting, financial and tax consultations Contact: swati@sattya.org

Galen is a documentary photographer and journalist, with four years of experience working independently and for magazines and newspapers in the United States and Southeast Asia. He enjoys excessively long days at the cafe working on photos, writing stories, looking at cat videos on YouTube, and drinking espresso (again, excessively). He has no children and is afraid of narwhals. You can see his work at www.galenstolee.com and www.galenstolee.com/blog. Passion: Stories that can change the world, using any and every medium available. Contact for: Photography, Filmmaking, Cinematic History/Appreciation, Slumber Parties Contact: galen@sattya.org

Priti is a recent graduate from Kathmandu University (Centre For Arts and Design). She is a Graphic Designer, but also loves illustration and photography. She enjoy all forms of creativity and is a lover of sports and music. Someday she would love to own her own company that makes amazing and fun stationery. She loves walking and daydreaming. She believes everybody should exercise at-least 30 minutes a day and drink allot of water especially the creative people because they need to keep the world colorful and meaningful. Contact: priti@sattya.org

Abhisekh is the Kolor Kathmandu Coordinator, and is known for his million-dollar smile in the office. He’s the core that brings everything together for KK, be it running around the sites, or explaining our projects to artists, and others. He’s “the dude” of our team, and is razor sharp with his rhetorics, and accounting skills. In his free time, he likes to play guitar and drums, and enjoys practicing broken English. Passion: Making ideas happen, Drinking coffee extensively, and Talking to people Contact for: Mural location suggestions, Interesting ideas on murals, Practicing broken english Contact: abhisekh@sattya.org

Praful is very vibrant worker. He has wide variety of experience. Working with new people, experimenting new crazy ideas are some of things he loves to do. He is really dedicated to his work so you can consider him as a workaholic. He is right now directing Hariyo Chowk project. He is funny and easy going guy. Passion: anything adventurous and surprising Contact me: if you want to make this city greener, share your ideas and hands with us. Contact: praful@sattya.org

Ricole is a sustainable architectural designer/ environmental activist/ artist. She received her degree in Interior Design in Canada concentrating her thesis on sustainable design. She has worked in architecture firms in Calgary, NYC and Montreal, but felt her passion for environmental justice in combination with creative thinking was the perfect fit for Sattya's Hariyo Chowk project. She believes in living life to the absolute with a minimal environmental footprint. Passions: environmental justice, radical reuse, guerrilla greening/design, singing and playing instruments, multi-media art, beets! Contact for: architectural/graphic design, creative workshops/ concepts, social media Contact: ricole@sattya.org

Sagar Chitrakar is an architect and a graduate of Pulchowk Engineering Campus. Architecture was something which he stumbled upon after high school and then it was something more than just stumbling – it became his passion. He loves photography and traveling. Currently Sagar is volunteering at Habitat for Humanity Nepal and applying to graduate schools for the year of 2013. Passion - Photography Contact for - Anything related to Architect-ey things and designs Contact: sagar@sattya.org

Colleen is an artist/ journalist/ gardener. She worked for a few newspapers in the U.S. before realizing an inclination to tell agricultural stories. After writing her undergrad thesis about women farming in India, Belize and in the U.S, she laid pen and camera to rest and spent a year growing vegetables full-time in her home-state of Kentucky. She believes in the magic of storytelling and movement, silence and stillness, flora and fauna, callouses, and shared meals. Passions: radical simplicity, maps, artful media, agriculture, grassroots activism, super spicy food, painting, alliteration Contact for: photo and multimedia, gardening, word editing, a listening ear, a decent haircut Contact: colleen@sattya.org

Bandana is majoring in graphic design in KU Centre for Art and Design. She likes every from of art and gets inspired by everything from poetry to painting to music or even an interesting doodle in a corner of a page! Bandana loves D.I.Y stuffs- they are very fun to do. She also likes working with clay and really enjoys making illustrations. She likes daydreaming inside public vehicles and actually comes up with pretty good ideas there! Passion: making things, art, music, fOOd, reading Contact: bandanatchan@gmail.com

Anjan is a recent graduate of the IBDP. After finishing high school he’s been looking for ways to make a difference in his home town before moving on abroad to continue his education. His endeavor to leave a mark brought him to Hariyo Chowk and had been an integral part of HC team. He is preparing for the zombie apocalypse by carrying a Katana at all times. Besides his impressive skills to move heavy objects, he’s known to be the guff ball of the team (for obvious reasons), and always has his ways to keep us entertained.

Aparna is currently a second year student of Development Studies in National College. She loves hitch-hiking, mountain biking- anything that has to do with exploring nature. She loves trying different cuisines and is a great fan of Arabic food. Poetry, monsoon, momos and music has always been the perfect combo for her. She aspires to bring a change in the way Nepali cinemas today are made and perceived. Passion: scribbling poems, photography, hiking, making documentaries, answering her 5 year old brother’s out-of-the-blue questions, trying out new and innovative recipes, singing and playing guitar Contact for: Poetry Jam, research assistance, event collaboration

Born and raised as Sangrachana Chamling (but to many, Sanga) from Kathmandu but with the heart, soul and mind far off to everywhere there is to be. I am an art loving person with the sense of art in everything that I see, hear or feel. I have been doodling, stenciling, singing, taking photos, writing and just experiencing and living my life for 17 years now (18 on May 21st, just so you know). Tumblr - http://chamlingiam.tumblr.com/ Wordpress - http://aafnaidhunma.wordpress.com/ Passion - art, music, photography, street art, discovering new GALLIES where ever possible, DOGS,blogging, drinking TEA! Contact for - street art, photography, musical jam (i do the vocals), if you need help with ideas for anything.

Amar, although an interior designer by profession, believes art will always be his first love. Initially drawing his favorite cartoon characters, he moved on to sketching portraits, still life and abstract paintings. After moving to Singapore to study design, he began practicing graffiti and other forms of street art. Besides designing and creating artwork, he takes pictures, especially while traveling and during festivals. Strange as it may sound, he likes to collect small pieces of rocks from his travels. Passion: Contemporary art, Travel photography, Graphic design, Architecture Contact for: Anything related to art and design

Kate is a writer, documentary and live music photographer, and part-time Human Rights student. Her work focuses on human rights and social issues, and particularly explores gender and sexuality. She eats copious amounts of spicy Asian food, speaks varying levels of six languages, and thinks she might have been an ornithologist in another life. She blogs at katewalton.tumblr.com. Passion: Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia and East Timor), storytelling, photography, writing, learning languages, traveling, food Contact for: collaboration on creative projects

Deepan had interned with Sattya in a bid to fulfill one of his wishes out of his wish-list of a number of things TO DO before he dies. Initially he wanted to learn about photography at Sattya so that he could abandon the tag of a BAD photographer among his peers. But now, he is also trying his hands on learning film making skills and other media activism skills. Passion: Photography/ Journalism/ Film making Contact for: Collaboration on creative photography/ film making skills

Meredith Marks had lead the Hariyo Chowk project, a collaboration between Sattya and Meredith’s social design firm CATALiST (link to catalistdesign.org). As an interdisciplinary designer, Meredith has explored how to use design for the common good through worldwide projects around green architecture and technologies, participatory eco-tourism development, urban agriculture and sustainable living, alternative indigenous education, social movement-building and much more. She loves to dance, have heart-to-heart chats with her friends and fellow seekers, revel in the mysteries of nature, and do as much as possible in the D.I.Y. spirit – especially building with found and natural materials and growing her own food and medicine. She holds a professional degree in architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Sustainable Development (focus on Community Development and Social Action) at SIT Graduate Institute. Passion: Design for self/community empowerment, radical self-sufficiency movements, eco-architecture, holistic healing Contact for: Any of the above

Nischal studied Philosophy and Management in New York. And worked as a chef in Manhatttan. He travelled extensively in his younger days and today has finally returned to Nepal after a decade abroad. He is a avid cyclist, loves taking photographs, drawing and writing. He currently works as a freelance writer. Passion: The arts, experimental music, natural sciences and manual labor. Contact: nischal.oli@gmail.com

Samjhana totally loves the creative environment of the place. She has recently finished her graduation in Social Works from St.Xavier’s College. She is a walk maniac and loves to photograph whatever she likes when she is walking. She thinks that creativity exists in every individual and we should give it an outlet, no matter even if we can only draw coconut trees and a house. Sam thinks that, more than experience, one has to have a learner’s attitude. She believes she has the latter. Passion: Writing /photo & video/animals/traveling & exploring cultures/reading novels/music Contact for: Collaboration on creative programs and creative writing

After completing the diploma course in media from WLC in Kathmandu, Tsering had to begin from somewhere. Looking at the workspace at Sattya, it made him believe that this was a place for him to with people who were into the kind of stuff that he was into. Poetry and rhymes have always been a part of his life. An emcee at heart and a logical speaker, he will speak what is on his mind. Passion: Slam poetry, free verse, beat making Contact for: Slam Poetry, organizing events, making beats

Ujala, who is generally called Oza, is a fun,loud and la-la-la person. She is currently taking a break from doing her bachelors in graphic design. She is a graphic designer, illustrator and an artist. Born and raised in Kathmandu, Oza is inspired by the rich culture and heritage of the town. Her work is inspired by little stories and things in and around her life. She is a bit over obsessed with the color purple. You can see her work at http://www.behance.net/Oza_la Contact: oza@sattya.org

Yuko, co-founder of Sattya, believes that every person has a story to tell and deserves to be heard. She is the founder/editor of VENT! Magazine, an online youth magazine in Nepal. She loves digging for stories, meticulous editing, working with youth, being inspired and chocolate, but she secretly wishes to be a monk. Born in Nepal, raised in Japan, schooled in the US, she feels that the education system could use a sprinkle of Sattya. Passion: Alternative journalism/Photography/Animal & food rights/Youth empowerment/Poetry/Enlightenment Contact for: VENT! intern & volunteer opportunities/Collaboration/Story ideas/Media Activism

Ali has completed his graduation on Cyber Security from Kings College, London. While searching for an adventurous job, he landed at Hariyo Chowk (HC). He is a passionate person who loves photography, documentaries, culture, arts, computer, generating programs ideas and old people. He is a part-time artist, a geek and a cheerful person. When you come to HC for the first time (for voluntary work) he'll make you feel like you belong there and will make you laugh all the time. He makes the job a lot more fun!!! Passion: art, classical music, helping others, meaningless parties, adventures, rains Contact for: web designing, cyber security, for smile, gardening, generating ideas and much more. Contact: ali@sattya.org