About me

I’ve worked in various roles in the policy, research and communications fields for almost a decade, focusing on health, human rights, and criminal justice. I started my career in India, working at the UN Women country office, before moving on to do research into reproductive rights and the treatment of refugees for Human Rights Law Network in New Delhi. After two and a half years, I came back to the UK and after a stint in health policy, transitioned into criminal justice policy, where I’ve remained to this day. 

My first experience of working within the criminal justice space dates back to when I was a student, when I volunteered in the now-closed women’s prison, HMP Holloway. Volunteering for Hibiscus Initiatives, I worked in the departure lounge assisting women on their day of release. This was my first exposure to the futile nature of the system, seeing the same women coming in and out, week after week, never getting help for the issues that were causing them to commit crime in the first place. I’ve remained passionate about making changes to our justice system since then, and found my way back into working in criminal justice policy in 2019. 

I truly believe that a country’s criminal justice system is indicative of its wider society - whether we value rehabilitation over punishment - and that we can’t even begin to consider how to overcome issues within the criminal justice system without looking into the reform of intersecting systems like health, housing, welfare, and education. My work consists of influencing local and national Government policy through robust and innovative research to advocate for a system that improves everyone’s lives, and puts people affected by systems at the heart of change.