I am a Brooklyn-based writer-activist, prison abolitionist, community organizer, interior designer, social movement strategist, and the descendent of freedom fighters from my homeland of Punjab.

From Kashmir to South Los Angeles, I have work alongside young people who have been incarcerated, helping re-imagine systems rooted in antiracism, youth liberation, and abolitionist futures.

I design “Participatory Policymaking through Poetry” workshops for systems-impacted young people, using poetry as a template for policymakers to infuse humanity and radical imagination into policy design.

I have worked for social justice organizations across borders and oceans, including Partners In Health, Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, founded by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and PEN America’s Prison & Justice Writing Program.

I most often write about decolonized dreams, diasporic longing, abolishing the carceral state, and transborder solidarities. I am a current 2024-2025 Kweli Literary Fellow, working on my forthcoming book “The Gorra, the Gringa, and the Muzungu.” My work has been featured at the Aangan South Asian Literary Festival, Brooklyn Poets, the Alfaaz Collective, and the poetry anthology “Capitalism is a Death Cult.”

As a 2024-2025 Bandung artist resident under the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art and the Asian American Arts Alliance, I am creating community oral histories around Black-South Asian liberation movements.

I graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard University, and served as a Harvard Kennedy School Women in Public Policy Fellow in Nepal and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Fellow in Kashmir.