Ms. Pallavi Khare works in the field of strategic communications with a focus on community empowerment from 2019. Ms. Khare started her career as an arts and culture curator at Godrej India Culture Lab. The Godrej India Culture Lab is a cultural space and a multimedia online network that sought to amplify marginal voices across the intersections of gender, class, and region through innovative public programing. Here, Ms. Khare curated cultural events around globally pertinent issues of gender and sexuality rights, environmental conservation and community rights, and cultural place making in contemporary India. She then went on to lead community impact and public scholarship initiatives at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore such that the valuable research produced at IIMI could positively enable the local and national community, businesses, academia, and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Ms. Khare has master’s degree in media and cultural studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Delhi. While at TISS, she produced two documentary films: Ghutan, which documented the plight of communities displaced because of developmental projects in Mumbai as well as Aamchi BEST, which showed the impact of privatization of public transport and its repercussions on public accessibility and mobility.

Through her Fulbright-Nehru Master’s fellowship, Ms. Khare aims to learn to leverage the potential of the multi-dimensional, dynamic, and evolving global media scape to drive social and cultural transformations.