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Aditi Surendra
Mental health content creator
BPD expert-by-experience
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About me
I'm a freelance content creator offering writing, design and instructional design. I work exclusively in the space of mental health and deliver high-quality, verified, appealing, and inclusive content. I also require reasonable accommodation to reach my full potential. It took me a long time to figure this out. Here's the whole story.
Full experience
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Organisation | Role | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
NP One Source | Content creation | Educational material for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners in training | March 2025 - Present |
International Foundation for Crime Prevention & Victim Care (PCVC) | Content creation | Content on domestic violence and gender-based violence to increase help-seeking behaviour | November 2023 - Present |
The PARC Academy | Content creation and instructional design | Flyers, brochures, training manuals, certificates and other promotional creatives | September 2022 - Present |
Ranjitha Jeurkar
Connext Coaching | Instructional design and graphic design | Worksheet designs for training sessions | November 2023 - Present |
Publisher on Upwork | Writing, Instructional design and graphic design | Conceptualization, ghostwriting and design of three books for teenagers:
A DBT workbook
An anxiety toolkit
A CBT workbook | February 2021 - March 2025 |
AID 4 Mental Health, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada | Content creation | Creating infographics, scientific writing, editing, creation of print and audio-visual content on research projects | August 2021
- July 2022 |
White Swan Foundation for Mental Health | Content creation | Reporting, personal stories, slideshows, infographics, video columns and ebooks | April 2019
- January 2021 |
Timbaktu Collective | Graphic design | Created over 200 pieces of educational material and a field guide, A Beginner’s Guide to Kalpavalli Conservation Area | March 2018
- February 2019 |
Centre for Child and Law, National Law School, Bengaluru | Graphic design | Designed a handbook for children on the Right To Education (RTE) Act | October 2017
- December 2017 |
The News Minute | Writing | Series on sexual health in collaboration with Dr Sandip Deshpande, psychiatrist and relationship therapist | 2016 |
ever after | Graphic design | Flyers, posters, stage backdrop, e-mailers, decks, standees, bookmarks | 2014 - 2016 |
My Opus Radio | Production | Managing radio channels, scripting radio shows, assisting the audio editor; and occasional voice-overs | 2012 - 2013 |
Eight Octaves | Music journalism | Concert reviewer | 2012 - 2013 |
I’m Still Thinking | Co-founder | Assisted social impact projects by creating impactful campaigns and content to enable change. | 2010 - 2012 |
Origami Creative Concepts | Copywriting | Internal communication for MNCs, newspaper ADs, website content, and other creatives | 2010 |
The Hindu, Mangalore | Music journalism | Concert reviewer | 2008 - 2010 |
Manipal Jam Team | Co-founder | A non-profit student organisation that organised live music and provided local musicians with a platform | 2008 - 2010 |
Guruskool, DNA Networks, Unwind Center, Alliance Francaise, and colleges (UVCE and IISC) | Concert organization | Stage management, artist management and operations of concert event management | 2004 - 2007 |
Education
College | Course | Year of (non) completion |
|---|---|---|
MES College, Bengaluru | PUC in History, Economics, Logic and Sociology | 2003 |
Jyothi Nivas College,
Bengaluru | BA in Communicative English, Literature and Psychology | Discontinued in 2004 |
School of Communication, Manipal | BA in Journalism and Communication | Discontinued in 2010 |
Interests
Sewing | Piano | Dance | Wildlife | Puzzles
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