Educational History
PhD, Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno
August 2021Â - Now
Studying gender and urban transportation infrastructure in Hyderabad.
Masters, Department of Gender, Race and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno
August 2023 - Now
Non-thesis track masters in Gender, race an identity studying theories of oppression, theories of identity & difference, and feminist theories
Master of Arts in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
August 2015 - March 2017
Specialised in Urban Development and Gender Studies while convering subjects such as Development Economics, Research Methodologies and Data analysis.
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Thesis on Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes for girl child empowerment in Telangana state.
Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
August 2012 - March 2015
Majored in Sociology, Economics and Psychology and specialised in post reform transformation in India.
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Visiting fellow - Keele University, United Kingdom. Studied community legal outreach through the UGC-IKIERI scholarship program.
Thesis on the urban markets for handloom products in Hyderabad city.
Workshops and fellowships
Local Democracy Academy, June 2022
ICLD (Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy)
Hands-on workshop focused on improving local democratic governance across the Global South.
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Best paper award in the feminist cities research group (for research on the Nirbhaya fund spending in India)
Certificate in Effective College Instruction, August 2021 -April 2022
The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) and the American Council on Education (ACE)
Year-long training in five modules: designing an effective course and class, establishing a productive learning environment, using active learning techniques, promoting higher order thinking, and assessing to inform instruction and promote learning.
Making a life, January 2023 - June 2025
Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Structured workshop on global urbanism through a comparative study of Berlin, Cape Town and Delhi.
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Final output on a matrix to evaluate inequality in global cities.
Writing Urban India Fellow, March 2021Â - June 2021
Center for Policy Research
Writing Urban India (WUI) is an initiative that seeks to promote and advance writing and research publications on urbanisation in the Indian context.
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Final writing output on mobilization of the civil society during crises in Hyderabad.
India Urban Fellows Program, August 2017 - May 2018
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Interdisciplinary fellowship on global south urban development covering subjects such as governance, infrastructure, economy, sustainability and inequality.
Final project on Disaster Risk Reduction for the city of Visakhapatnam.
Employment History
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Nevada
August 2021Â - Now
Instructor of record, introduction to cultural geography (GEOG 106), summer semester, 2023
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Teaching assistant, introduction to geo-technology (GEOG 210), spring semester, 2022-23
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Teaching assistant, introduction to cultural geography (GEOG 106), 2021-22
Research Associate, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
July 2019Â - September 2020
Leading research, advocacy and implementation work towards creating urban transport systems that are responsive to the needs of women, children and disabled persons.
Research Associate, Factly media and research
September 2018 - June 2019
Fact checking government claims related to developmental and policy outcomes in the country using publicly available data sets.
Research Assistant,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
May 2018 - August 2018
Leading research methodology creation, on ground qualitative data collection and quantitative data analysis for evaluation of reforms and welfare in the prisons of Telangana.
Academic internships: as part of educational requirements
2014-2018
World Resources Institute (WRI), Bangalore (March 2018-April 2018): Data analysis and visualisation
Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore (April 2016 - June 2016): Decentralization and Development Department
Watershed Action Support Services and network (WASSAN), Hyderabad (April 2014 - May 2014): Behavioral modification campaign