About

I apply design thinking and co-creation approaches in the context of health systems strengthening, organisational transformation, and cultural and social impact.

Since 2019, I have been a senior design researcher and strategist at Quicksand, a leading design thinking & innovation consultancy based in India where I have worked on projects on a range of themes including mental health, gender intentionality, and humanitarian work, with clients such as the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, IDEO, USAID MCGL, Women in Global Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, International Rescue Committee, and Girl Effect. I have been leading the facilitation design practice at Quicksand: anchoring communities of practice, leading design sprints and co-creation processes, as well as participatory foresight.

I have an education in architecture from SPA, Delhi and in urban sociology from the LSE, London. In 2010, I co-founded Delhi Dallying, a walking tour company project to engage with the many layers of the city.

If you’re working towards futures where health systems, cities, and societies work for all, I’d love to have a chat with you.

Key Skills

Design Research & Strategy
Facilitation Design
Speculative Design & Participatory Foresight
Cultural Research & Curation
Project Management and Business Development

Work Experience

2023 – presentSenior Manager & Facilitation Design Lead @ Quicksand Design Studio India

Leading facilitation design and strategic research across health, gender, and culture portfolios at India's leading design thinking and innovation consultancy.

2019 – 2023Senior Associate (Design Research & Strategy) @ Quicksand Design Studio India

Led qualitative and participatory research programs across public health, humanitarian, and social impact engagements.

2017Architect in Residence @ Sensing Local Lab India

2016Urban Design Architect @ Centre for Green Mobility India

2015Architect @ Co.Lab Design India

2013 – 2014Architect & Strategist @ Arch i Platform India

2010 – 2016Co-founder @ Delhi Dallying India

Co-founded a blog and walking tour company to make Delhi's urban narratives accessible and engaging.

Work Details

Area	Year / Type	Description
Implementation Research & Strategy	2023	Led perinatal mental health research in rural and tribal Madhya Pradesh to map the perinatal journey and improve public health service delivery.
Qualitative Research	2023	Interviewed city officials on COVID-19 response to create a Health Resilience Playbook for administrators managing health crises.
Scoping Research	2021	Six-month scoping for Elrha's Skills & Capabilities team to define competencies for innovation managers in the humanitarian sector.
HCD Research	2019	Research for Ipas Development Foundation to improve experiences and outcomes of self-use medical abortion in Bihar, India.
Framework Design	2024 – present	Developing "Gathering," a framework at Quicksand for how we convene, collaborate, and work through differences.
Design Sprint	2024	Led a four-day sprint with Girl Effect India to design an intervention strategy reaching 9–14-year-old girls for HPV vaccination.
Co-creation Processes	2023 – 2024	Eight-month online consultation with 90+ Women in Global Health members to co-create mandate, theory of change, and organisational model.
Implementation Research	2023	Four-month consultation with 20+ global experts to define a theory of change and prioritized research questions for improving perinatal mental health in LMICs for USAID M-CGL.
Communities of Practice	2022 – 2024	Co-anchored GenderCollab with Oxford Policy Management to advance gender intentionality in Indian health systems.
Collaboration for Preparedness	2022 – 2023	Facilitated the Indian Alliance for Public Health Preparedness, a multi-sector collaboration on environmental surveillance and health resilience.
Community of Practice	2020 – 2022	Facilitated CORE Net (COVID-19 Research Network) supported by the Gates Foundation for social science and health researchers.
Learning & Exchange	2023	Led a three-day retreat in Senegal for five International Rescue Committee country teams working on acute malnutrition (GiveWell-supported).
Participatory Foresight	2021	Six-month consultation with MSF South Asia leadership on "What will MSF South Asia look like in 2030?"
Speculative Fiction	2020 – 2021	Created "Humanitarian Spring 2030" for the Norwegian Refugee Council Innovation Service, exploring future humanitarian disruptions.
Speculative Design Workshop	2019	Led an 80-person workshop at MSF Co-days Amsterdam on the future of Médecins sans Frontières as a global organisation.
Cultural Research & Curation	2022 – 2023	Cultural Research Fellow for Wellcome Trust Mindscapes Bengaluru; anchored artist-researcher community, facilitated "Mental Health & the City," and curated the Mindscapes International Summit.

Accolades

2022–2023 Wellcome Trust Cultural Research Fellow for Mindscapes Bengaluru.
2020 SOIF Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Asia Special Award.
2016 Conceived and curated the first two editions of the Delhi Walk Festival.
2016 Featured among the top 50 emerging architects of India by Architect & Interiors Magazine.
2002 National Bal Shree Honour for excellence in Creative Performance (music) awarded by President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Other Highlights

2015: Initiated fundraiser Art for Nepal, selling travel-drawing merchandise to raise GBP 2200 for transitional shelters after the Nepal earthquake.
2013: Teaching Artist with Music Basti, a life skills education initiative for underprivileged children in Delhi.
2003: Represented India as a cultural performer at the Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norway.

Education

Year	Institution	Programme	Notes
2017 – 2018	London School of Economics	MSc City Design and Social Science (Merit)	Chevening Scholar; Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship (MIT Media Lab "On Cities" Workshop); Co-founded FoUL magazine.
2008 – 2013	School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi	B.Architecture (Merit)	NOKIA-OXFAM Create to Inspire Fellowship for Moving Delhi Project; Co-founded Delhi Dallying.