In early 2024, I was elected, to the Board of Directors of CLAGS at the CUNY Graduate Center. I am currently serving my first three-year term on the board.
CLAGS
In 2021-2022, I served on the Board of Directors of the American Comparative Literature Association as one of two Graduate Student Representatives.
ACLA
I run an Instragram account called Stooping Books, which collects and shares images of used books that are being given away across New York’s five boroughs.
Stooping Books
During my time at NYU, I was an organizing member of the NYU Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium (PRDS).
Postcolonial Colloquium
I co-founded and co-organized (in its inaugural year) an event series and working group at NYU with my colleague Heba Jahama called the Queer Studies Forum.
Queer Studies Forum
“Pandemic is a Portal" is a house/techno track created out of a collaboration between Brooklyn-based DJ-producer Krithi and myself. It is response to Indian intellectual and activist Arundhati Roy's 2020 "Pandemic is a Portal" speech. We ask, What would it mean to really take moments of rupture like the COVID-19 pandemic as opportunities to re-imagine the social, economic, and environmental conditions under which we live? In 2020, we saw birds and wild animals return to city and suburban spaces around the world, as well as the skies over New Delhi and other megacities clear of pollution and return to a bright blue. This is our attempt to capture that feeling in the form of an electronic track. All proceeds from this track will go to the anticaste advocacy organization Equality Labs.
Streaming links: Bandcamp, Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify
