About

Hello! My name is Ankita and I am a Master’s in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

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Before HKS, I ran several capacity building programs to help early- to mid-stage, mostly grassroots NGOs in India to scale their programs and interventions on the ground. As a policy student, I am now interested in translating my grassroots experience into policy change at a global level. I am particularly passionate about conducting research and policy analysis on gender issues, with a focus on gender-based violence and economic empowerment of all women.

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This summer— thanks to the generous support of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School— I will be interning with the World Bank’s Women’s Business and Law (WBL) Project. In this role, I will be conducting research and developing policy recommendations to address the legal barriers that restrict women’s access to justice and the implications of these barriers on women’s economic empowerment.

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Thanks for visiting my blog and feel free to reach out to continue the conversation!