Rashana
Shanella
A Tale of Two Worlds
and
America.

A Sri Lankan-American technologist, educator, and storyteller who merges creativity with innovation by empowering others through a blend of cultures, experiences, and industries.
Career
Career
Rashana’s career is fashioned from experiences spanning several industries, technology, and growth stages – EdTech to E-Commerce, Autonomous Vehicles to Virtual Reality headsets, and early to mature growth stages.
Rashana presently works at Amazon. She joined the company in July 2022, and has enjoyed keeping close proximity to customers to build automated processes infused with empathy









Impact
&
Outreach
Rashana’s work in education has spanned over 10 elementary schools, and a total of 70+ students in her community using a play-based model to teach children STEM and robotics concepts.
Engagements
Engagements
Features
Features
Rashana has been featured in various articles/press releases related to the success of her contributions in her community.
Greetings!
My name is Rashana Shanella Weerasinghe (it’s a long one, I know). I am the youngest of two, hailing from the exquisite island of Sri Lanka. I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Burgher-Sinhalese father. We were in Doha, Qatar for 7 years prior to moving to America. Here, I grew up on the East Coast across the states of Virginia, Florida, New York, now having landed in Connecticut.
Professionally, I work at the intersection of business and technology, with a focus on building automated processes infused with empathy. When I am not working, you can find me in the classroom as a University Adjunct Instructor or Early Childhood Educator.
Across my professional and academic domains, my work remains rooted in applying the altruism of technology, and the spirit of entrepreneurship to empower communities.
Rashana
Shanella
Bridging the best from the East and West
A Tale of Two Worlds:
capturing the spirits of
Sri Lanka
and
America

A Sri Lankan-American technologist, educator, and storyteller who merges creativity with innovation by empowering others through a blend of cultures, experiences, and industries
Her background and interests lie at the intersection of
Education
Entertainment
and
Entrepreneurship.
Education
Entertainment
Entrepreneurship
Career
Career
Rashana’s career is fashioned from experiences spanning several industries, technology, and growth stages – EdTech to E-Commerce, Autonomous Vehicles to Virtual Reality headsets, and early to mature growth stages.









Impact
&
Outreach
Rashana’s work in education has spanned over 10 local elementary schools, and a total of 70+ students in her community using a play-based model to teach children STEM and robotics concepts.
Engagements

Speaker at the CEN May 2021 Conference, talking about the impact of Virtual Reality in the classroom.
Engagements
Features
Rashana has been featured in various articles/press releases related to the success of her contributions in her community.

Features
Model
Portfolio

Rashana entered the space to represent women of color by “being the representation she wanted to see."
Greetings!
My name is Rashana Shanella Weerasinghe (it’s a long one, I know). I am the youngest of two, hailing from the exquisite island of Sri Lanka. I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Burgher-Sinhalese father. We were in Doha, Qatar for 7 years prior to moving to America. Here, I grew up on the East Coast across the states of Virginia, Florida, New York, now having landed in Connecticut.
Across my professional and academic domains, my work remains rooted in applying the altruism of technology, and the spirit of entrepreneurship to empower communities.
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