Under the conversation series by eminent speakers titled ‘Crafting Careers,’ our next lecture will feature Gayathri Sreedharan, founder of Anthropie, a research communication organization that specialises in applied anthropological, sociological and design research.

About the series

Crafting Careers organised by the NLS BA (Hons) programme is designed to help students navigate the world of work. Each session in the series will bring leading professionals from fields such as media, government, public policy, business, finance, and the creative arts to campus for candid conversations about their journeys. These experts will share insights and advice from their professional experiences and offer reflections on how social science majors may relate to different career pathways. These dialogues will offer students a chance to learn from diverse experiences, gain practical insights, and reflect on how to build careers that align with their own interests, skills, and values.

About the speaker

Gayathri is a Delhi-based applied anthropologist, ethnographer, and qualitative research specialist. She started her career as a journalist, initially in broadcast journalism before transitioning to long-form and investigative journalism for print and radio. In 2014, Gayathri earned her MA in Anthropology degree from the University of Chicago, where she studied sociocultural and linguistic anthropology. After years of working as a qualitative researcher and in development policy and strategy, Gayathri founded Anthropie in 2020. Anthropie is a research communication organization that specialises in applied anthropological, sociological and design research. Anthropie is made up of a core group of research and implementation experts, and works with a large collective of anthropological, sociological, economic, human centred design and gender researchers, based in and working on projects across the world.

At Anthropie, Gayathri uses her skills to study changing dynamics that impact different target audiences, communities, cultures, and sociocultural norms, behaviors, rituals, and beliefs, to design user-led strategies for change and intervention. Gayathri has worked for several years in different parts of the northeast, eastern India, north India and more recently southern India, working on projects that focus on documenting community customs and beliefs, changing cultural dynamics and definitions, and the impact on/of women’s collectives in the state on their livelihood, health and gender empowerment opportunities.