Suhail Arastu

Suhail Arastu was raised in San Antonio, Texas and studied Neurobiology & Classics at The University of California, Berkeley where he competed as a gymnast. In Philadelphia he began graduate studies before moving to a small Japanese mountain village for a year of contemplation, deep sea fishing, hiking, skiing and teaching. He then traveled the world by ship under the auspices of the United Nations Economic & Social Council before returning home in 2008. Suhail works in Institutional Advancement for Musical Bridges Around the World, a non-profit performing arts company charged to unite, educate and inspire through culturally diverse visual and performing arts.

Arastu served two terms as a Trustee of The Mind Science Foundation, one term on the Board of Directors of Gemini Ink, and is the Arts & Culture Chair for Anuja San Antonio – the organization that manages San Antonio’s Sister City Relations with Chennai, India. Arastu is the Mayor’s appointee to the Public Art Commission and enjoys serving on the Board of Directors of Constitution Cafe & The Lone Star Art Alliance.

He was elected to Class XL of Leadership San Antonio and completed a Marshall Memorial Fellowship in Spring of 2018; in August of the same year he was appointed to serve on the Board of Sister Cities International, a Washington DC based organization that grew out of the League of Cities under President Eisenhower. Arastu was named 40 Under 40 by the Business Journal in 2020. He leads Yoga privately and at Yoga in Motion and serves on the Advisory Council of International Yoga Day – a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. A collection of Arastu’s photographs from seven continents was shown at PechaKucha Volume 5.