Amirtha Kidambi is a vocalist, improviser, composer, educator and activist invested in decolonizing music. Undoing sonic borders across free jazz, punk, noise and Indian devotional music, she challenges hegemony through subversive sound. A co-founder of South Asian Artists in Diaspora and an organizer with Amplify Palestine, Kidambi leads the protest band, Elder Ones, and is currently on the faculty at Brooklyn College.