Ranjani Srinivasan

Ranjani Srinivasan is a Doctoral Candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP. They hold a Bachelor’s in Design from CEPT University in Ahmedabad and was awarded with the Fulbright Nehru and Inlaks Scholarships to pursue their master’s degree in Critical Conservation at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Their graduate research: “Gold & Cyanide: Family, Caste, and the Post-extractive Landscape at Kolar Gold Fields” explored the continuities and transformations of caste rights within extractive economies in postcolonial India and received support from the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute. Prior to starting their PhD at Columbia, Ranjani worked as a project associate at an environmental conservation and planning advocacy nonprofit in Washington, D.C where they campaigned for critical landscapes and frontier communities at-risk from climate change. They have also worked as an urban researcher for the West Philadelphia Landscape Project (WPLP) at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, and a field researcher for international development agencies in South Asia.