Experience

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, UAlbany

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Secretary

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  New York, United States I serve as Secretary on the Rockefeller Student Association, the student association for graduate students of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. In my role, I coordinate and manage academic, professional, and social programming to serve and foster a vibrant intellectual atmosphere for all graduate students of the College.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  New York, United States



University at Albany, SUNY

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  New York, United States Over the summer of 2022, I joined UAlbany SUNY's Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (CURCE) as Graduate Assistant. In my role, I managed CURCE's programs for over 12,000 UAlbany undergraduate students on research, scholarship, and creative activities aimed at fostering students' academic interests, career goals, and passions.



United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

• United States
• International Affairs
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Rockefeller Capstone Coordinator

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  New York, United States I coordinated the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy capstone co-designed with UNCDF for Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Political Administration (MPA) programs. I coordinated and oversaw the capstone assignments for MIA and MPA students who joined as external experts and reviewers on UNCDF's local finance transformative development proposals for Africa and Asia and the Pacific.



UN Women

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Gender Budget Expert

  • Dec 2020 - Jul 2021

  Delhi, India As the Lead Gender Budget Expert for UN Women India, I provided technical support to design and implement the India country office’s strategy on gender responsive and inclusive national and sub national planning and budgeting. I implemented key Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) interventions both at the national and sub-national level in India, covering a wide and diverse geography and range of GEWE issues. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I led the generation of evidence and knowledge resources on… Show more As the Lead Gender Budget Expert for UN Women India, I provided technical support to design and implement the India country office’s strategy on gender responsive and inclusive national and sub national planning and budgeting. I implemented key Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) interventions both at the national and sub-national level in India, covering a wide and diverse geography and range of GEWE issues. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I led the generation of evidence and knowledge resources on state budgeting and planning to mitigate the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on women and other vulnerable constituencies in India. Show less



Amnesty International

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 2021 - Mar 2021

  Kabul, Afghanistan As the lead consultant, I reviewed, edited, and co-authored Amnesty International's, South Asia, research on the low participation of women in Governance and Administration in provinces and districts, at the sub-national national in Afghanistan.



United Nations University

• Japan
• Think Tanks
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Policy Research Intern

  • May 2020 - Dec 2020

  Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia As Policy Research Intern at the United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health, I generated, validated, and managed the evidence and data for the institute's Global Policy Tracker on COVID-19 to integrate public health, economic, social and community measures taken to address the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic across all countries. I am also coordinating an evidence-research to build experimental Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) risk model to channel support to… Show more As Policy Research Intern at the United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health, I generated, validated, and managed the evidence and data for the institute's Global Policy Tracker on COVID-19 to integrate public health, economic, social and community measures taken to address the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic across all countries. I am also coordinating an evidence-research to build experimental Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) risk model to channel support to those most at risk in Mexico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Overseas Development Institute. For another evidence-project that I am working on, I am evaluating and generating evidence on the interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goals to achieve gender equality for health and wellbeing in collaboration with UN Women. Show less



International Growth Centre

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Investigator

  • May 2019 - Feb 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom As Principal Investigator, I developed a working paper on closing gender gaps in Bihar, India. This involved applying Gender Responsive Budgeting - a global framework for mainstreaming gender in a government’s planning and budgeting- to undertake a critical stock taking assessment of the state’s institutional processes and mechanisms to advance gender equality and inclusive development.



Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Philippines
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • May 2019 - Jun 2019

  India As the lead Technical Consultant, I designed ADB India Resident Mission's gender-responsive assessment criteria and tools to evaluate the Bank’s organizational programmes for India. This involved designing the methodology to gauge learning outcomes for the Bank’s diverse development partners in line with its global and regional gender policies and procedures.



UN Women

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme Consultant- Women Peace & Security

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2019

  Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand At the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand, I worked as a technical consultant on Governance and Women, Peace and Security (WPS), providing support to 20 country offices in the region in programming up to USD 15 million annually. My work involved strategizing, designing, planning, implementing, reviewing and monitoring programmes to advance WPS agenda within the larger landscape of national and local security sector reforms. I coordinated multi-country… Show more At the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand, I worked as a technical consultant on Governance and Women, Peace and Security (WPS), providing support to 20 country offices in the region in programming up to USD 15 million annually. My work involved strategizing, designing, planning, implementing, reviewing and monitoring programmes to advance WPS agenda within the larger landscape of national and local security sector reforms. I coordinated multi-country programs to address, counter, and prevent violent extremism (PVE); enhance access to justice for women in Asia and the Pacific through bridging the gap between formal and informal justice systems; and prevent and mitigate the impacts of Terrorism, Trafficking and Transnational Crime through Women’s Empowerment. I was Peace and Security advisor to the UN Women Myanmar's program on strengthening democratization through domesticating and operationalizing WPS resolutions in the peace process following a nationwide ceasefire agreement between the government and ethnic armed organizations in 2015

• Project Officer

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2018

  New Delhi Area, India As the project officer for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, I managed the design, implementation, and monitoring and reporting of an annual budget portfolio of USD 400,000 across the MCO countries. I led the initiatives on intergovernmental advocacy on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in the four countries. In this role, I also advised UN Women in Afghanistan on an interagency program with UNDP Afghanistan and the Administrative Office of President, Government of Islamic Republic of… Show more As the project officer for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, I managed the design, implementation, and monitoring and reporting of an annual budget portfolio of USD 400,000 across the MCO countries. I led the initiatives on intergovernmental advocacy on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in the four countries. In this role, I also advised UN Women in Afghanistan on an interagency program with UNDP Afghanistan and the Administrative Office of President, Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to strengthen gender responsive planning and budgeting across 20 federal ministries of the government. In India and Sri Lanka, I worked with national and sub-national governments to critically assess their programmes and budgets from a gender lens. I also worked as the lead trainer and facilitator for UN Women technical programmes on GRB with governments of Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Lao PDR and Sri Lanka. I had the dual charge as the Peace and Security Coordinator where I was UN Women Headquarters' coordinator for its flagship Female Military Officers’ Course (FMOC) to train female military officers from major troop contributing countries to join UN peacekeeping missions as military experts and observers. I worked with the military/army and UN Women offices in China, India and Kenya to train 200 female military officers from over 30 troop contributing countries from 2015-17.

• Programme Assistant

  • Apr 2014 - May 2017

  New Delhi Area, India As the research assistant, I coordinated UN Women and the Asian Development Bank research on ‘Gender Trade and Green Growth’ (2014-15) in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. This research involved a novel approach to triangulate the secondary cross-country and regional data on trade and exports with the field studies on female low/semi-skilled entrepreneurs, home-based business owners, and farmers. The findings demonstrated that women’s equal access to resources improved not only the lives of… Show more As the research assistant, I coordinated UN Women and the Asian Development Bank research on ‘Gender Trade and Green Growth’ (2014-15) in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. This research involved a novel approach to triangulate the secondary cross-country and regional data on trade and exports with the field studies on female low/semi-skilled entrepreneurs, home-based business owners, and farmers. The findings demonstrated that women’s equal access to resources improved not only the lives of individuals, families and nations, but also promoted sustainable environmental growth. Exploring the social contextual and gendered realities, the study also revealed the barriers that marginal farmers and home-based entrepreneurs experienced along trade-value-chains. From 2015-16, I worked as Programme and Research Assistant to the UN Women and Ford Foundation’s program on ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting in India: Sustaining Change’. Overall, alongside coordinating research programs, I also supported the multi-country office's annual work planning activities.



EY

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Consultant

  • Feb 2013 - Apr 2014

  Gurgaon I served as the lead documentation researcher, analyst and strategic management consultant with EY's global development advisory services for the Government of India, MNCs, and bilateral and multilateral organizations. The key projects I led included the development of World Bank's corporate social responsibility (CSR) India guidelines; evaluation of UN Women’s anti-human trafficking programme in India; evaluation of the Government of India’s scheme for the North-eastern region (earmarking of… Show more I served as the lead documentation researcher, analyst and strategic management consultant with EY's global development advisory services for the Government of India, MNCs, and bilateral and multilateral organizations. The key projects I led included the development of World Bank's corporate social responsibility (CSR) India guidelines; evaluation of UN Women’s anti-human trafficking programme in India; evaluation of the Government of India’s scheme for the North-eastern region (earmarking of 10% of the annual planned budgets of GoI's Union ministries towards the development of North Eastern Region); and design and review of the CSR strategy for multi-national-corporations. As the lead technical consultant, I also worked with Qatar Foundation to review its social and development programs in Qatar from 2013-14. Show less



BBC Media Action

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Research Associate

  • May 2012 - May 2012

  London, United Kingdom Thematic analysis of the data for BBC Media Action's project on 'Promoting civic education and political participation among Afghan people'.



Pardada Pardadi Educational Society

• Project Officer

  • Feb 2009 - Sep 2011

  I was the project head for a cost-effective sanitary napkins project - ‘Rags to Pads’ - led by PPES to support sexual health, reproductive rights, and menstrual health and hygiene of women and girls from 50 villages in Anupshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. I also supported PPES' communication and media strategy through compiling and publishing bimonthly newsletters, annual reports, and other communication materials, and reaching out to the non-profit's corporate and individual donors.



The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2008 - Jul 2008

  London, England, United Kingdom I assisted a Doctoral scholar from the Gender Institute in LSE with primary data collection, transcription, transliteration, and analysis of the interlinkages between gender, policing, and violence against women in Delhi, India. As the research assistant, I conducted interviews with the women survivors of domestic violence in urban slum/resettlement colonies in Delhi, India.



Centre for Social Research India

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

• Intern

  • Sep 2007 - Jun 2008

  Delhi, India I joined Centre for Social Research (CSR) as a full-time intern. CSR is a non-profit organization lobbying and advocating with national and state governments in India to guarantee and protect the human rights of women and girls. At CSR, I learned to examine critical sociopolitical issues from the lens of gender. I assisted CSR counsellors in community-led interventions to address and prevent violence against women and children at the CSR-run crisis intervention centres which operated across… Show more I joined Centre for Social Research (CSR) as a full-time intern. CSR is a non-profit organization lobbying and advocating with national and state governments in India to guarantee and protect the human rights of women and girls. At CSR, I learned to examine critical sociopolitical issues from the lens of gender. I assisted CSR counsellors in community-led interventions to address and prevent violence against women and children at the CSR-run crisis intervention centres which operated across resettlement and slum colonies in Delhi. I also worked with CSR's Gender Training Institute which mainstreamed and contextualized gender equality trainings and discourse in the corporate, development, and the public sector in India. Show less



National Service Scheme

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

• Volunteer

  • Jul 2004 - Jun 2007

  Delhi, India Launched in 1969 by the Government of India, NSS is a pan-India voluntary service program led by students and teachers to sustain community involvement. The scheme connects about four million volunteers across hundreds of universities to community-based organizations in India. From 2004-07, I joined NSS and volunteered with organizations like the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and Child Rights and You (CRY). At IRCS I was introduced to relief interventions for underserved communities in times… Show more Launched in 1969 by the Government of India, NSS is a pan-India voluntary service program led by students and teachers to sustain community involvement. The scheme connects about four million volunteers across hundreds of universities to community-based organizations in India. From 2004-07, I joined NSS and volunteered with organizations like the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and Child Rights and You (CRY). At IRCS I was introduced to relief interventions for underserved communities in times of disasters, emergencies, and crisis. At CRY, I learned about the gross violation of rights of children who were driven into work as child labours, lived in extreme poverty, and had no access to education. Show less



RAHI Foundation

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

• Peer Educator

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2006

  Delhi, India During my second year in college, I learned about RAHI foundation (Recovering and Healing from Incest) working with women survivors of child sexual abuse in Delhi. After receiving training from RAHI as a peer educator in 2005, I volunteered with the foundation (2005-06) where I joined fellow educators and campaigned across colleges in Delhi to break the silence against child sexual abuse.



National Association For the Blind (NAB)

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer

  • Dec 2004 - Sep 2005

  Delhi, India From 2004-05, I volunteered at National Association for the Blind (NAB) as a member of the National Service Scheme. NAB is a non-profit organization working with persons with visual disability in Delhi. During my time with NAB, I managed the association's administrative files, and cleaned and recorded database.