Eesha Kunduri is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her research spans the domains of labor studies and urban studies. She is broadly interested in understanding how identities shape the way people experience development processes and outcomes, and has recently written on caste reconfigurations among industrial and home-based workers in Indian cities. Prior to joining UMN, she worked as a Research Associate with New Delhi based think-tank, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), for over four years. During her time at CPR, she worked on projects pertaining to lived experiences of work and migration in metropolitan and small cities in India, on state-citizen engagements in urban India, and on comparative experiences of migration and urbanization in New Delhi and Johannesburg. Eesha holds an M.A. in Development Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi and a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Delhi.