Experience

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  UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI)

  • Centre Manager

    • May 2024 - Present

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  South Asia Speaks Writing Fellowship Programme

  • Writer of Short Fiction

    • Nov 2023 - Present

    Working on a book of short stories set in Kashmir

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  Fundação Lemann

  • Oxford, England, United Kingdom

  • Public Leadership & Human Development in Conflict Regions

    • Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
    • Oxford, England, United Kingdom

    Investigated and authored a case study on sustainable development in regions affected by armed conflict (with a focus on Indian-administered Kashmir). Explored the intersections of government legitimacy, public service leadership, international development, multilateral intervention, and their implication on human rights in Kashmir

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  UNICEF

  • Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

  • Data & Tech Governance

    • Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
    • Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

    Led UNICEF's strategy, tech, and data governance for the Department of School Education, Government of Jammu & KashmirBuilt expertise in:- Navigating the complexities of driving evidence-based policymaking (using tech & data) in conflict-affected regions- Spearheading multi-stakeholder projects, and liaising to meet expectations of a multilateral, civil societies, government, bureaucrats, and social work orgs while maintaining personal peace of mind- Reflecting upon techsolutionism, eventually turning towards relevance of critical theories in tech/data to find answers to pressing problems on the ground

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  International Innovation Corps

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organization Management
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Associate

    • Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

    IIC fellowship is a social impact program for young professionals based out of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. I was deployed with Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS) and consulted for the Government of Telangana. CEGIS was founded by Prof. Karthik Muralidharan (UCSD, JPAL) & Ashish Dhawan (Central Square Foundation) and funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-Built most of my expertise in economics, data governance, data analysis, and public policy. Certainly, my most rewarding work experience so far.- Learnt what it is like to work closely in synergy with economists (one must keep up with the most robust research, know why the research is evidence-based, and how to shape it into policies), governments (how to convince a government about research evidence and outcomes, how to build and maintain rapport), young policy professionals (sharing ambition, insights, popular perceptions is incredibly useful to build robust opinions and expertise).- Learnt creating high-quality collaterals for high-profile individuals in time-sensitive environments (also, managed to build work ethic and life balance).

  • Associate

    • Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

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  Genpact

  • New Delhi Area, India

  • Digital Transformation

    • Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
    • New Delhi Area, India

    Genpact Social Impact Fellowship is a year-long engagement to build organizational strength and program robustness for high-impact non-profits- Learnt how to integrate my education in tech and liberal arts into supporting non-profit orgsSkills and tools learned and put to use: Lean Six Sigma; Design Thinking; Process Re-engineering and Optimization; M&E

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  Ashoka University

  • Fellow

    • Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

    Year long academic, residential programme, PGD in Liberal Arts

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  The Bombay Review

  • United States
  • Book and Periodical Publishing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Director- South Asian Literary Forum

    • Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

    I was responsible for end-to-end organization and management of the forum in 5 countries. The South Asian literary forum was designed to recognize how the social structure of subcontinent affect the lives of young people and how a collective community voice can investigate the roots of inequality and injustice, and empower artists. Post the events, we collected fiction from these countries to be published in the annual anthology

  • Fiction Editor

    • Jul 2016 - Jul 2017

    I was part of the core team as Fiction Editor. As TBR is a bi-monthly online literary magazine publishing short fiction and poetry, my role was to spearhead the fiction section that involved curating, editing, compiling and reviewing about 100 pieces of fiction on a bi-monthly basis and authoring editorial pieces. I co-authored a series of articles for Lahore University Magazine on authors that India and Pakistan shared. Apart from organizing and attending literary events around the country, I assisted with curating fiction for the annual anthology. With a readership base in more than 120 countries, TBR is based out of New York City, Mumbai. Apart from publishing, The Bombay Review also conducts free literary events across cities in India and abroad.

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  Launchora

  • Gurgaon, India

  • Creative Manager

    • Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
    • Gurgaon, India

    - Part of the core team - Conceptualized writing tropes on the platform to enhance and enable creative writing for the users.- Regularly curated fiction and poetry submitted by writers across continents.- Ideated and wrote weekly periodicals on the expanse, trends, and scope of creative writing.- Compiled weekly writing guides and courses as a staff-writer to foster writing skills.- Wrote fiction and poetry to attract readers to the platform. Probably my best experience in the creative writing sector so far. One of my fiction pieces was published in an anthology of short stories with readership across 20 countries

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  WWF-India

  • New Delhi Area, India

  • Communications Intern

    • Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
    • New Delhi Area, India

    Worked on an exotic pet trade campaign in Delhi, media stakeholder management, website design and content.

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  AIESEC India

  • Canada
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Vice President- Global Community Development Program

    • Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

    Overlooked the end-to-end recruitment of 100+ members, 10+ teams of the local chapter of AIESEC. Mentored, trained, coached and retained 95% of the membership. Facilitated local and national conferences as a coach, speaker, agenda manager, leadership workshops designer impacting 700+ students.

  • Marketing Manager, Global Community Development Program

    • Aug 2013 - Dec 2014

    Facilitated 50+ international internships in 12 countries across social sector with a focus on health, education, rehabilitation, and sanitation. Assisted and maintained partnerships with NGOs and universities.

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  Google Developers Group

  • Jalandhar Area, India

  • Co-organizer, Co-Founder First Women's Group

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
    • Jalandhar Area, India

    I was a co-organizer and a speaker at Google Developer's Group in Jalandhar. We organized annual DevFest, hackathons, workshops on Google Polymer Project, Google products review events, web design and development workshops. I was the only member with a non-computer science background. Later in 2015, with a group of other women, we co founded GDG's first women's group.