Meranda collaborates with the arts-in-healthcare focused ensemble The Clinic Performance and award-winning theater Ping Chong + Company. Meranda has been recognized for their work through a Visiting Fellowship with Skidmore College’s Storytellers' Institute, and speaking engagements across the world.
Meranda’s dual-degree master’s in Urban & Regional Planning and Theatre’s Directing & Public Dialogue focus on the centrality of the arts to navigating complex social issues. With Civic Arts, they recently began developing a training in professional policy and engagement to integrate arts and culture into the ways we create our cities.
Meranda’s Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and working class upbringing are important to their aesthetic process and approach to organizing.