Vaishnavi (she/her) is a M.A./Ph.D. student in the department of Theatre Arts and Dance, who holds a master's degree in Social Work (Women Centric Practice) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, India. She is a performer, researcher, and a feminist social worker. She has been working with notable non-governmental organizations, collectives, and students' movement spaces in India on various issues of gender justice. She is interested in working at the intersection of performance and the politics of caste and gender in the South Asian context. Through her research, she wants to explore the radical role of performance in shaping perceptions around sexual assault and violence in India, performance as justice, and its role in building sustained collective actions and movements for social justice.