My current research, under the advisement of Dr. Shantel Buggs, investigates how low-income and racially marginalized communities in Seattle engage with and advocate for climate justice. Drawing on ethnographic methods — including in-depth interviews and participant observation — I examine how these communities navigate environmental inequities in the city.

I came to sociology through social work and literature. Trained first in English Literature at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and then in Feminist Social Work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, I bring to sociology a sensibility shaped by close reading, ethnographic attention, and sustained engagement with questions of inequality and precarity. Before my doctoral training, I served as a Research Officer on a Government of India funded project examining how various forms of violence shape the life course of women across India, and subsequently conducted qualitative research on debt and precarity among working-class women in Mumbai. These experiences across different disciplines and sites of inequality continue to shape my approach to ethnographic research.

I also teach undergraduate courses in Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Sex and Gender, and Environmental Sociology at Florida State University, committed to a classroom that is both intellectually rigorous and grounded in care.