Archana trained in Bharatanatyam under the guidance of Guru Raji Venkat, and she is currently training in Odissi from Guru Dipti Mallik. She is an engineering leader at a New York based Cloud Provider Startup and lives in San Jose. She and her husband Jayan love to travel and have visited over 30 countries in the past few years. She has choreographed and organized the Folk Dance Medley for the Sammelan.