Ishaa is a Guelph MSc. Candidate in Critical Family and Kinship Studies with an Interdisciplinary focus on Gender, Sexualities and Bodies at the University of Guelph, Canada. She has a Diploma and Honours Degree in Early Childhood Education from George Brown College. A BFA in Indian Classical dance of Kathak; she was trained under Guru Pta. Maneesha Sathe and now Prajakta Dravid- founder of Kathak school- Ātmikā in Toronto.

'Finding Order in Disorder', her deeply personal memoir, explores intersectional themes of lived experiences in mental well-being and being a survivor of intimate partner violence through the medium of expressive arts such as dance therapy, mad poetry, visual arts, and journaling. She has led dance workshops through community arts engagement at Toronto Neighbourhood Organization- TNO, George Brown Polytechnic and Workman Arts programming at Meridian Arts Centre.

An artist-scholar, her multidisciplinary art is featured in a York University thesis film ‘Unfinished’ screened at Workman Arts Organization's Rendezvous with Madness, Stella’s Place Mental Health film festivals. Her work has been disseminated at academic conferences such as Children’s Mental Health Ontario - CMHO , International Society of Psychosocial Approaches to Mental Health- ISPS-US, Digital Mental Health International Collaborative- eMHIC and Council of Exceptional Children - CEC.

Her writing, inspired by her Supervisor, Dr. Adam W.J. Davies, has appeared in AECEO’s eceLINK journal. She is the CEO and Founder Finding Order in Disorder Foundation Non-Profit & Arts Collective that seeks to explore projects such as hybrid podcasts, therapeutic dance and community engagement for mental wellness.