Priavi Joshi is a first-year MPP student at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. In her time here, she hopes to learn more about social movements, participatory and rights-based forms of democratic governance, and development approaches that center the experiences, constraints and aspirations of the communities they seek to serve.

Prior to joining Yale, Priavi spent three years at IDinsight. There, she was a part of IDinsight’s embedded partnership with the Government of India for its flagship program to improve bureaucratic state capacity. She also collaborated with Inclusion Economics India Center on a large-scale data collection and research project to assess the impact of increased mobile phone access among women in rural Chhattisgarh. As part of the internal Gender & Intersectionality Group, Priavi led efforts to determine entry barriers for women in enumerator roles and developed strategies to address them. To disseminate the findings and strategies, she authored blogs for the India Development Review and delivered a presentation to members of the National Statistical Offices of 15 countries in a webinar hosted by the Gender Data Network.

Priavi studied political science at Ashoka University and, during her undergraduate years, she served as a research associate at the Trivedi Center for Political Data and as a teaching assistant for courses on democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia and qualitative approaches to political violence. She reflects often about the hierarchy in which we exist to one another and, every now and then, reviews books that shape her thinking about its persistence and possible flattening.