Born and raised in Kolkata, India, Shrinwanti holds a postgraduate degree in International Studies (Summa Cum Laude) from ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal; a masters degree in International Relations from University College Dublin, Ireland as a UCD Global Scholar; and a bachelors (Hons.) degree in Political Science (Gold Medalist) from Presidency University Kolkata, India. She is also an alumna of Sciences Po Paris, France, where she spent a semester as part of her undergraduate study abroad program, as a Charpak Exchange Scholar.
Besides being an ICGC Scholar, Shrinwanti is also a Moving Images, Media & Sound (MIMS) Fellow. Her research is situated at the confluence of Performance Studies, South Asian Diaspora Studies, and Feminist (Digital) Media Studies. She is broadly interested in how migration (both transnational and internal) produces differently embodied performances of ethnolinguistic 'Bengali' identity, belonging, and cultural production. She focuses both on diasporic Bengali communities in the US (especially the Midwest) and internally migrated Bengali communities in India, attending to how language, memory, and space shape the terms of identity and belonging, with a particular attention to the ways caste, religion, and gender mediate these performances. She is also intrigued by how diasporic and migrant communities employ digital media to preserve, contest, and reimagine Bengali identity across borders. This interest extends her transdisciplinary research into social media and digital performance cultures, questions of affect, embodiment, and labor in online spaces, as well as postfeminist and new materialist approaches to the politics of the digital body.
Shrinwanti has contributed to various academic research projects, feminist policymaking initiatives, digital advocacy efforts, creative works, and youth leadership roles with impacts across South Asia and the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. She has worked with several grassroots-driven global movements and local community service organizations such as the World YWCA, War Prevention Initiative (USA), Migration Youth and Children Platform (MYCP), Common Purpose Ireland, Oxfam Ireland, Child Rights & You (CRY) India, Foundation for Democratic Reforms India, and Migrant Communities Project (USA/Portugal), to name a few.