Board Members

CEO Taranada
Oliver Rajamani
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A Indian/Romani artist - the CEO of Taranada Rajamani brings his expertese in creating, hosting and directing multicultural events and workshops. He is the director of hAmaro fest - an annual musical/cultural event that brings to Austin the Romani culture, music and history.
Rajamani has been a professional musician since 1990 specializing in Romani culture and music. Rajamani has worked in the United Nations Romani Congress in New York, under Hungarian Rom “Shandor Balogh” in guidance of Romani Scholar and Romani UN Ambassador Dr. Ian Hancock. He lived in Greece and Israel working with Romani and Dom communities while taking time to learn Middle Eastern music with the nomadic Bedouins in the Negev desert of Israel. He has since then continued to be a strong voice musically and socially in the Romani plight. He has also served in bringing recognition to the largest Romani archive center in Austin, Texas.
Oliver Rajamani performs innovative soul stirring original music adding color, spice and passion to the Texas musical landscape. Rajamani has created a sound of his own with the cultural and musical threads of Gypsy/folk India, European Romani (Gypsy), and Texas Americana while bringing recognition to the historical Indian origins of the Romani people. He sings in various languages including English, Romani and languages of India.
An Austin, Texas World Music award winner, a nominee of the 2008 US Artist Award and the 2014 nominee of the prestigious German music award “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Oliver Rajamani “BESTENLISTE-Vierteljahrespreis 1/2014 Weltmusik. Rajamani has toured internationally and has recorded and performed with poets and artists wide-ranging in style including Jeronimo Maya, Gypsy Kings, Willie Nelson, Edie Brickell, L. Shanker, Eric Johnson, Diane Schuur, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Ustad Aashish Khan, Glen Velez, Roby Lakatos, Jivan Gasparyan, Paravai Munniamma, Tomasa La Macanita, Dotschy Reinhardt, Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Paul Maar including performces for the Maharaja of Jodhpur, India, Gaj Singh II. He has been a featured artist on the NPR BBC radio, Klru PBS amongst numerous other international radio, TV stations and magazines including the Tedx platform.
Rajamani has worked with leading psychotherapists internationally and has been an invited guest to the International Hypnosis Conference held in Germany and a presenter at the “German/Nepalese Medical and Psychology Congress” in Nepal. He has presented Nada yoga workshops in India, Germany and USA.
As the CEO of Taranada Rajamani brings his expertese in creating, hosting and directing multicultural events and workshops. He is the director of hAmaro fest - an annual musical/cultural event that brings to Austin the Romani culture, music and history.

Secretary Taranada
Anita A. Jung
(founding board member/Treasurer)
With 28 years of distinguished service in nonprofit leadership and mental health, Anita Jung has significantly contributed to enhancing community collaboration and project development. Anita holds credentials as a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) and a Licensed Psychological Associate (LPA).
She is the founder and CEO of the Jung Wellness Institute, where she continues to drive impactful mental health programs. Her leadership extends to serving as president of both local and national boards, and serving as an active member of an international board, underscoring her commitment to advancing mental health on a global scale. Her career includes pivotal roles at LifeWorks Austin and Central Counties Center for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services, where she honed her skills in nonprofit leadership and psychotherapy.
Additionally, she has provided mental health services to musicians through the Sims Foundation and MusiCares, a charity organization of The Recording Academy/Grammys. She also serves on the Musician's Clinical Mental Health Advisory Board for the Sims Foundation, offering valuable insights into community mental health needs and cultural competency.

Treasurer Taranada
Manu Saini
Manu Saini was the original co-owner of the very successful ClayPit restaurant before he became a licensed Broker in Texas since 2015. Manu is an entrepreneur with many talents. He loves investing and talking about investment opportunities. He regularly gives to charitable organizations and prides himself on being eco-friendly in his personal life as well as his businesses. He has been a great supporter of the multicultural arts community of Austin since the late 1990's, creating a live performance venue at the ClayPit Bergstrom hall and hosting multicultural music events. He has been a long time sponser and supporter of Taranada's CEO Oliver Rajamani in his musical and cultural arts programs.
Advisory Board Taranada

Dr. Ian Hancock
Dip.O.A.S. (Lond.),
PhD (Lond.),
PhD (Umea),
PhD (Konstantin)
Ian Francis Hancock OBE (Romani: Yanko le Redžosko; born 29 August 1942) is a linguist, Romani scholar and political advocate. He was born and raised in England and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies.
He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton, who, Hancock claims, has Romani ancestry. He also represented the Romani people at the 1997 Rafto Prize award. In the late 1960s, he became a Romani rights activist after reading reports about anti-Romani discrimination in Britain.
In particular, he took up the cause of Romani rights after reading about an incident in which three Romani children were killed in a fire caused by a lamp after police officers, who had arrested their parents, attempted to use a bulldozer to forcibly remove their caravan while they were still inside. In 1971, he graduated with a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of London. On 29 December 2018, Dr. Hancock was knighted by the Queen of England for services to Creole linguistics, Romani studies and community development.

Dr. Nidhi Trehan
Dr. Nidhi Trehan holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London from 2008 to 2010. Active in the areas of human rights and social policy as a practitioner and academic, she has published on the subjects of human rights, identity politics, NGOs/social movements and migration, with a focus on the Romani communities of Europe. Dr. Trehan was based in India from the Fall of 2010 to December 2017, where she was Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi). In addition, she worked in the management of American Montessori Public School, a senior secondary school based in Gurgaon, India.
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Harold McMillan
Harold McMillan has presented jazz and blues music in a city that too often relegates historically Black music to the sidelines. He’s hosted several jazz festivals, including the Clarksville Jazz and Arts Festival/Austin Jazz and Arts Festival, has produced several touring shows by artists including Jimmy Smith, McCoy Tyner and Roy Hargrove, and also I’ll Be Home for Kwanzaa (Bagel, 1997), Austin’s only holiday recording featuring jazz, blues and gospel. Additionally, McMillan is a gifted musician, playing bass. But labeling him as a producer or artist overlooks his most significant contribution to the Austin jazz community: Cultural preservation. McMillan has been one of the most stalwart protectors of the Six Square Black District's culture.
McMillan began preserving the East Austin musical community in 1990 with the Blues Family Tree Project, his effort to uncover and archive Austin’s history of Black artistry. That project led him to create DiverseArts Culture Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to the District’s long-term development. McMillan is also associate producer of the Historic Victory Grill founded in 1945 including Kenny Dorham's Backyard.
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Kevin Chin
Kevin chin is a Asian American Chicago native with ancestral roots in China. He has a formal background in Electrical Engineering and the director of Northshore Media Productions. He has spent nearly 30 years playing various musical instruments, beginning with Classical piano at the age of 4.
Kevin has played lead guitar in front of a 50 piece symphonic wind ensemble, toured through villas in Italy with a Jazz Big Band, and headlined many major venues in Chicago with his original and cover bands in addition to winning several outstanding soloist awards while performing at the prestigious North Texas University Jazz Festival. In 2013, Kevin was voted a double winner in the Jazz and R&B categories for the EARS Mix-Off Competition (Engineering and Audio Recording Society of Chicago).
In 2014, Kevin founded EARS ATX (Engineering and Audio Recording Society of Austin), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of excellence in audio and music production providing free music production related educational seminars, clinics, and events to the Austin community. In 2015, Kevin added photography and videography to his skillsets, and has worked on numerous projects from large corporate clients to small startups. Kevin is a member of the Grammys and the Emmys.

Lourdes Kaman
After becoming a mother, Lourdes was inspired by her own experiences to join the reproductive justice movement and become a birth companion. Her immigrant background fuels her passionate commitment to reproductive justice and health equity, which she's been advocating for over twenty years, mainly focusing on immigration matters.
As a founding member of Mama Sana, Lourdes plays an important role in creating programs and initiatives to support perinatal education and resources, especially for Spanish-speaking communities. Beyond her work with MSVW, she runs a successful catering business that provides culturally specific fresh foods to community and institutional organizations. Additionally, Lourdes serves as a board member of La Aldea, an organization dedicated to preventing and supporting survivors of domestic violence, offering holistic support and community resources.

Glenn Rios
Glenn Rios, is a native Texan and a representative of the Native American Cherokee culture and nation. He is a professional musician versed in a variety of American and World music styles. As a multi-instrumentalist Glenn is continually searching to broaden his musical horizons for new means of musical expression by studying the music of different cultures.
His fascination with recording found him exploring the possibilities of multi-track recording at the early age of 16. During his high school years he played in various Rock and Roll bands. He was a drum section leader and band president during his senior year also performing with the Sul Ross State University Theater Pit Orchestra in the summertime. Later he enrolled in Sul Ross State University to further his musical education. After a few years of college he opted to further his knowledge of audio recording by attending the Art Institute of Dallas where he earned a degree in audio and video production. He also tutored a number of students while in attendance and after graduating from the Art Institute of Dallas.
He was an intern at Summit Burnett Recording Studio and briefly at Planet Dallas where he gained valuable experience in a professional environment. Glenn later moved to Austin, Texas where he promptly found employment as an Audio Engineer and Studio Musician at Tim Stanton Audio. While at Tim Stanton Audio he landed a gig composing music for the radio show Star Date of the University of Texas at McDonald Observatory. He currently operates a home recording studio with co-owner Leah Heptner called Gem In Eye Records (formally known as Glenn Glaz Recording Studio) based in the Austin, Texas area. As a skilled Audio Engineer he has recorded and produced albums for local and international artists of various genres.