Our Team
Nanvi is an educator, learning designer, and artist. She holds a Master's in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Her work is informed by Reggio Emilia, and inquiry-based approaches that position children as capable thinkers, researchers, and creators. Across India and the United States, she has worked with alternative, international, nonprofit, and public education settings, and has supported the professional learning of more than 500 school teachers, gaining insight into how innovative practices can be adopted and sustained across diverse educational contexts.
Krista Galleberg Founding Strategist
Krista Galleberg is an educator, curriculum designer, community organizer and researcher. She is currently a PhD student at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and formerly taught elementary school and designed curriculum at High Tech High, an international leader for project-based education.
Krista has worked as a strategy consultant for start-ups in both the public and private sectors, and is thrilled to support the Emergent Inquiry Studio as a founding strategist. When she is not working, you can find Krista exploring the national parks or spending time with her family and friends.
Marina Seevak, MAT, is the founding executive director of The Beautiful Stuff Project. She is also adjunct faculty in Early Childhood Education at Bunker Hill Community College. Previously she was director of the Evelyn Pitcher Curriculum Resource Laboratory at Tufts University where she also was an instructor in the Early Childhood Education Department. She also taught pre service teachers for many years at Lesley University. She began her career as a classroom teacher in the Cambridge Mass Public School System.
She has been involved with early childhood education in some capacity for over 35 years but the title of “the beautiful lady” given to her by the school children of Somerville, MA is her most dear. Marina is the proud mom of one son who recently received his BFA at Sierra Nevada University in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Her home in Cambridge Mass is filled with both her mosaic art and her son’s ceramic, wood and metal sculpture.
Our Story
"Ma'am, is this the right answer?"
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It's a question I heard over and over again while teaching and working in classrooms.
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Not "What if?" or "Can I try this?"—but "Is this right?"
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Over time, I noticed how many learning environments were built around finding the correct answer rather than exploring ideas, asking questions, making mistakes, or creating something new. I met children full of curiosity and imagination, and teachers who wanted to teach differently, yet both were often constrained by systems focused on memorization, worksheets, and predetermined outcomes.
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We believe learning is not about delivering information. It is about creating the conditions for people to wonder, explore, connect ideas, and develop their own understanding of the world.
At its heart, Emergent Inquiry Studio exists to nurture creativity, agency, and imagination—for children, educators, and communities alike.