She has worked extensively in the field of Human Rights, Human Development, Disaster Management and Violence against women. She was born in India and obtained her MSW from TISS, Mumbai in 2000. She was a human right scholar with British Council at University of Warwick, UK and completed her LLM in 2003. She completed her Ph.D. in Social Work with a focus on human trafficking from University of Texas at Arlington. She is actively involved in research and advocacy to serve victims of human trafficking. She is also a documentarian and has produced two documentary films on human trafficking. She has presented her work in several national and international conferences and has been key note speaker for conferences on Women’s Rights.