Women’s University, Mumbai, with formal qualifications in commerce, development communication, distance education, extension education, participatory research, and women’s studies. She has professional experience in mainstream print (newspaper), television (researcher, scriptwriter and anchor), Internet (content provider), and alternate media (newsletter editor and documentary filmmaker) environments besides field experience in rural women’s empowerment programme Mahila Samakhya at Gujarat before becoming an academician since 1997. A recipient of a Government of India award for her book manuscript for neo-literates in the year 2002, she has four books and numerous journal publications to her credit.