Her music has been commissioned by the Albany Symphony, Kronos Quartet and American Composers Orchestra, and performed in venues including Carnegie Hall and the Barbican Centre. She is a graduate of Juilliard and the Yale School of Music, and a Fulbright grantee to India in music. She has taught theory and composition at Manhattan School of Music in the Precollege division, and undergraduate theory and composition in the Yale Department of Music. Reena is currently a post-residential doctoral candidate at Yale, where her doctoral thesis was on collaboration methods between western composers and Hindustani classical musicians.