Senior Associate
Saumya graduated from Georgetown University with a double major in Government & Philosophy.
She has also studied Government, Surveillance and IT, Comparative Political Thought, and Global Justice & the Environment.
She joined the CPI team in 2020.
Saumya volunteered as an Early Childhood Education at a community library in New Delhi, India. The library is an explicitly anti-casteist and anti-racist grassroots community library. She helps out by supporting the Headstart programme – a programme dedicated to supporting kids from the ages of 4-7 to become acquainted with the library and its’ educational resources.
She was also a Board Member at the South Asian Society in Georgetown, DC. She spent her time dedicated to building out the South Asian community on campus. She used her leadership as an opportunity to push the boundaries of what inclusivity looks like within the South Asian Community while also melting the monolithic understanding she had of this identity.
She has loved working on the Innovation Training Programmes with CPI, in which she followed cities in their design and innovation journeys around solving complex issues in their contexts. These programsme reinvigorated her faith in public service and government and reminded her of the power of working with community! It’s what’s led her to what she wants to study in grad school – Urban Planning.
In her leisure time, Saumya enjoys dancing, comedy shows, good movies and TV shows, good books, time with friends in community, the mountains!