She graduated from the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago in August 2015. Her doctoral research traces the many impacts of transnational funding for anti-trafficking on community-based organizations (CBOs) of female sex workers in South India. In part, her work documents the use of trafficking interventions as a state tool to discipline unruly female sexualities. Her new research explores resistance to the entrance of an HIV prophylactic (PrEP) on the Indian pharmaceutical market from an unexpected corner: CBO heads in the MSM and hijra (third sex) community.