Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 · 3 mos

• Talking to interesting folks, recovering sleep deficits, reimagining career paths

Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

• Worked with: Gates Foundation, IFMR@Krea University
• Leading project processes, determining research blueprints, and building iterative and intellectually-open spaces with my teams.
• Ensuring pace with structural milestones of initial concept creation, methodology-building, framing of insights and intervention pathways.
• Liaising with clients and partners directly to build organisational partnerships for collaboration, co-creation and funding.
• Leading event-planning processes for conferences on Digital Trust, co-creation workshops with partners and external output testing and iteration.
• Holding intra-organisational responsibilities of culture-creation and health insurance management.

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr

• Worked with: Gates Foundation, GIZ India
• Managing associates and analysts through project expectations, mentoring and evaluating growth
• Architecting frameworks for research specifically on user trust and digital adoption, enabling core concepts and providing support to the Founder's interactions with clients and partners
• Leading HCD fieldwork processes, enabling team members to carry out creative research strategies
• Organising and participating in international conferences through panel discussions, moderations, closed-door events in countries such as Brazil and Ghana to build organisational partnerships globally

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos

• Worked with: Gates Foundation
• Managed analysts through project expectations, provided guidance and onboarding, enabled literature review processes and supported leadership in ensuring bottom-up team cohesion
• Led background research and writing for reports around encrypted platform governance and financing of digital technologies in the GovTech space
• Built user personas, frameworks of digital trust analysis and presented insights to clients and partners

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Worked with: Omidyar Network India, WhatsApp India
• Researching and writing reports on financing digital public infrastructure, digital climate change consciences and encrypted platforms
• Crafting recommendation frameworks and landscape advisory documents for clients and funders
• Writing articles on data privacy grievance redressal frameworks, financing judicial technologies and the value of ecommerce for women's economic growth

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021 · 1 mo

• Assisted Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta in facilitating online class, discussion and logistics for this course, held between Ashoka University and Princeton's Institute with a mix of students from India, Ethiopia, China, Russia, USA, UK, Brazil and Guyana.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Home

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr

• Assisted Prof. Mehta in shaping the pedagogical tools and syllabus of two undergraduate courses: "Great Books" and "Western Political Thought."
• Conducted weekly tutorials and discussions through a mix of short lectures, digital aids, music videos and computer-generated optical illusions.
• Created writing guides, conducted academic writing workshops and checked undergraduate papers

Aug 2019 – May 2020 · 9 mos

• 2019:
• Teaching Assistant for POL-202: Political Thought in the Age of Nationalism
• Teaching Assistant for POL-308: Feminism, Power and Gender
• 2020:
• Teaching Assistant for POL-1030: Qualitative Research Methods

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Wrote content and copys for the online websites of IKEA India (furniture), Luxire (gentleman's clothing brand), Directi and Jyothishi.

Aug 2018 – May 2019 · 9 mos

• Taught a section of first-year students how to write papers for their 'Introduction to Critical Thinking' course.
• Taught a section of students how to write papers for an 'Ethics and Technology' course.

Jan 2017 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Volunteered for Ashoka University's cultural, sports, debate and literature fests since 2017.

Jul 2018 – Jul 2018 · 0 mo · Bhutan

• Edited and drafted a proposal for a watershed management plan to present to the Royal Government of Bhutan.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Researched and wrote an issue brief on 'China's expanding military footprint in Africa', published by the Foundation.
• Conducted research on military statistics and relations of India.

Oct 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Sonepat, Haryana

• Organised a lecture series themed on the 'Rise of the Right?', inviting speakers like Dr. Swapan Dasgupta, Gurcharan Das, Nidhi Razdan and Subramanian Swamy to the Ashoka University campus.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Led the student government in organising academic, cultural and athletic activities.
• Represented the school in 'Peacejam', a conference on the teachings of the Dalai Lama, and on Tibetan arts, science and philosophy.

Apr 2013 – Feb 2014 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Tutored junior students in mathematics, political science and history as part of the school's 'Student-Teacher' programme.