I have over a decade’s worth of experience working at the intersection of technology and society as a researcher, teacher, and a practitioner. My dissertation project on caste and gender in the Information Technology industry in India and Indian diaspora has emerged from years of experience and research. I did pilot research projects with feminist activists in Delhi, urban feminist organizations working in rural India on women’s rights and feminist technologies, rural organizations working on women’s capacity building in solar technologies, and lastly, women in technology groups in the IT industry of India.

Before starting my PhD, I worked in the software consulting industry, a non-profit working with young women in urban communities for technology access, use and decision-making, and, I have worked with a social start-up that built digital and paper based interventions for menstrual education.

I have a strong background in information technology from my undergrad where I was trained primarily as an Information Communications Technology (ICT) engineer with a minor in humanities. My undergraduate thesis was a design project that proposed a learning tool for high school students to explore the constructed and partial nature of history through a web application. It used a holistic approach to story-telling of a moment in history with ICTs to renew the way students look at historical events as they learn about them in school.

🤳🏽 Research Intern at Microsoft Research India

👩🏽‍🎓 Teaching and Research Assistant at Cornell University

🩸 Digital Media Specialist at Menstrupedia

👩🏽‍🏫 Program Associate at Feminist Approach to Technology

👩🏽‍💻 Business Technology Consultant at Deloitte LLP