Aarushi Tripathi, she/her

aarushi.tripathi@duke.edu
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Aarushi hails from Ahmedabad, India and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Manipal University Jaipur in 2019. As a woman in STEM since high school, her experiences with strict gender roles and homogeneity in science and technology steered her towards the field of public policy. Before Sanford, Aarushi was a Senior Data Science Engineer and worked with big data, machine learning algorithms and software development. Besides her full-time experience, she has been an intern at political consultancies and a volunteer at many non-profits in India and Bangladesh. She’s passionate about addressing social inequalities through evidence-based policies that empower marginalised communities as decision makers. Her major areas of interest lie in labour, gender, caste, climate and technology. Outside the policy world, Aarushi enjoys playing football (a Liverpool FC fan), reading fantasy novels, trying out new food, writing, singing and cycling. Her dream is to master at least one string instrument and visit every wildlife sanctuary in her lifetime.

Areas of Policy Interest:

• Social Policy
• Technology Policy