Experience

Desai & Associates

• India
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Hyderabad, Telangana, India Desai & Associates (D&A) is an innovative finance focused research, advisory and advocacy firm helping funders, founders and policymakers identify, structure and deploy innovative solutions to sustainable development challenges in climate, inclusion and livelihoods. Its mission is to drive better capital allocation and tri-sector collaboration on intersectional development issues and help democratize knowledge to deepen the capacity of the innovative finance ecosystem in emerging markets.

• Associate

  • May 2022 - Feb 2023

  Hyderabad, Telangana, India Associate in the Advisory Team Desai and Associates working on blended finance, gender and climate advisory projects.



Millennium Campus Network (MCN)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Millennium Fellow

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  I was selected from 25000+ competitive applications received worldwide and mentored by industry experts in workshops organized by the United Nations Academic Impact. I led Project Climate Resilient Nagpur (SDG 13), which aims to build a climate resilience & mitigation plan for Nagpur city and conducted primary research through surveys and interviews and analyzed multiple open-source databases by TERI, NEERI, and NMC.



People's Archive of Rural India

• India
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  Created alternate education curriculum for high school students based on PARI Networks articles and resources.



Kumaon Khand

• Business Development Intern

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2020

  Uttaranchal, India



The Happy Turtle

• India
• Environmental Services

• Social Media Marketing Intern

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2020



Enactus Ashoka University

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Head of Project Lakeer

  • Aug 2018 - May 2020