Simran holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and for the 2017-2018 academic year will be the Henry R. Luce Post-doctoral Fellow of Religion and International Affairs at the NYU Center for Religion and Media. He also currently serves as a Truman National Security Fellow for the Truman National Security Project. As a Sikh-American, scholar of religion, and activist for social justice, Singh explores the way the racialization of religious identity has affected communities locally and nationally, as well as how an interfaith community can respond to discrimination and violence.