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I am a graduate student pursuing a Master of Art in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University where I study the various issues that lie at the intersection of technology and society from a policy perspective. Broadly, I examine the different convergent nuances such as data privacy, accessibility, algorithmic biases and information security.
To study these, I wish to leverage my prior policy training– from my undergraduate degree in Political Science– and combine with interdisciplinary technical skills that I gain through my study at Georgetown. First, I wish to critically examine the role of technology on people in their social and political context. Second, I wish to apply this knowledge to develop technology-enabled interventions that address societal inequalities. In other words, I wish to study technology policy both from a critical and constructivist lens.
Before coming to Georgetown, I was working with the Embassy of Spain in India towards furthering their Public Diplomacy initiatives and then later with UNESCO South Asia Office, in their Communication and Information wing where I investigated the impact of the Internet on free speech and the onset of an information society. This is precisely my current area of academic focus. In addition to academia, I am working with the Georgetown Technology Policy Initiative, a student-group at Georgetown which brings together students, faculty and researchers from across campus to engage in critical conversations. I am also working with Prof. Leticia Bode on synthesizing her research on misinformation by making it more interpretive for non-expert audiences and creating accompanying visual aids. At the Georgetown Journal of International, I am honing my editorial skills by working as a Section Editor for the Conflict and Security team.
Having worked in the government sector, I wish to now work with the neo regulators– either private stakeholders or think tanks to garner industry insights and affect change from a different spectrum in the Internet governance ecosystem.
