Who We Are

Aparna Sundaram, COO Recruitment & Consulting

During her thirty year career in education, Aparna has been a teacher, department chair, administrator, and DEIJ consultant with more than 12 years of recruitment experience in independent and international schools. Aparna understands the challenges of navigating predominantly white spaces as a person of color and the sweet sense of belonging in racially diverse settings. Therefore, as an educator, she has committed herself to ensure the educational settings she enters prioritize diversity and inclusion work, even if that means leading the change herself. She has designed curriculum examining the impact of race, gender, and class on individual and national identity and created courses focused on adolescent identity development. Aparna has also helped parents, administrators, faculty, and students recognize the necessity for affinity spaces in schools. She is a former member of the Independent Schools Association of Central States (ISACS) Equity and Justice Committee, where she helped rewrite the equity and inclusion standards for accreditation, and is a founding board member of Cleveland's South Asians for Justice and Equity (SAJE). As the mother of biracial, bicultural children who attend an international school, this work is not only professional for Aparna, but personal.