Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya graduated from Seton Hall University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. In 2022, she graduated from Yale University with a master’s in International & Development Economics. She wrote her master’s capstone on the impact of economic sanctions on political rights and civil liberties of recipient countries. Aishwarya worked at the Lowenstein Project, a human rights clinic in the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. She served on a project regarding water access in Palestine.

At the International Rescue Committee, Aishwarya worked on grants and communications, spearheading projects for dignified communication in refugee camps in Kenya.

Aishwarya serves as a Consultant and Climate Lead at Dubai Cares, and also works as a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has interned at Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a fund hosted by UNICEF that seeks to provide education in emergency and protracted-conflict zones, and at the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States, and helped co-author a paper on the impact of COVID-19 on landlocked developing countries. She has also worked at Ernst & Young, a public accounting firm. She has authored and co-authored various articles on migration, gender, and education.

She enjoys photography, dancing, playing the guitar, hiking, baking, writing prose, tango, and learning about people’s lives.