Born and raised in New Delhi, I attended middle school in The Hague, and high school in San Diego. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), I majored in Political Science and Global Studies and then served a one-year AmeriCorps term with Public Allies in Phoenix. I received an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Chicago (CIR) with a second year of specialization. Since then I have been enrolled in Northwestern University’s PhD program in Political Science.

I am a 2016-17 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion fellow. At Northwestern, I am a graduate affiliate at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, graduate fellow of the Legal Studies Program and the Critical Theory Cluster, co-founder and co-chair of the International Relations Student Working Group, and member of the Comparative-Historical Social Science and International Organizations & International Law working groups.

When not reading and writing about international politics, I enjoy (re)discovering the sights of Chicago, traveling to bodies of water, and cooking fairly elaborate meals.

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