Subashini Ganesan-Forbes is the Founder and Executive Director of New Expressive Works (N.E.W.), an organization that celebrates the creative power of diverse professional independent performing artists, by providing critical studio space for artistic research, education, and public performances. Ganesan is a South Asian female immigrant to the USA, contemporary Bharatanatyam dancer, and Artistic Director of Natya Leela Academy. Since 2008 she has been making work that expresses the universal emotional depths present in her form. She has received multiple Regional Arts & Culture Council Grants. She often collaborates with local choreographers Mike Barber (Founder, Ten Tiny Dances) and Michelle Fujii (UNIT SOUZOU). Her works have been showcased at local & regional festivals including PICA’s annual Time-Based Art Festival, Conduit’s Dance+, Ten Tiny Dances Beaverton, NW Folk Life Festival, & the Salem Library's "World of Music."