School of Public Policy Womxn's Network

Chair: Anushka Srivastava

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Anushka is a second year Master of Public Administration student at LSE. Prior to the LSE, she received her Bachelors in Economics from the University of Delhi in India. Anushka is passionate about the use of data analytics in policy decisions to reduce inequalities. This stems from her previous work in the education sector in India as a teacher and curriculum designer with underserved students for three years. She is a part of the Teach for all community and is interested in education policy.

During her first year at LSE, Anushka was involved in the Womxn’s Network Advocacy Committee where she supported the team in consolidating resources regarding reporting academic, wellbeing, community, and safety concerns at LSE. She also worked with 4 other members in furthering the research on the inclusivity and diversity of the SPP curriculum through a detailed analysis of the courses’ reading lists and teaching content. Anushka is also part of the research team to study the uptake of green menstrual products on campus with the Sustainable Futures Society at LSE.

As part of the Womxn’s Network, she wants to continue advocating for an inclusive and diverse curriculum within the SPP as part of the advocacy initiative. She hopes to engage with external gender networks and gender centric societies within the LSE to collaborate towards enabling more representative support for all students who are marginalised.

Please feel free to reach out to Anushka with any questions, suggestions or concerns about the Womxn’s Network or anything really!

Head of Advocacy: Emma Ross

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Emma is an MPA Year 2 at the London School of Economics. She received her BA in Politics from Mount Holyoke College. Prior to the MPA, Emma spent many years in the education and non-profit sector, focusing on community-based responses to governmental gaps in social and economic policy. Her interest is in the power of the third sector and community-based organisations to shape policy and governmental agendas.

This interest in community responses to challenges and recognition of the value of student activism inspired Emma to join the Womxn’s Network. Her primary goal is to make the SPP’s policies, practices, and staff reflective and respectful of the diversity, backgrounds, and experiences of the SPP students.

During her first year, she was a member of the Advocacy Team. She focused on working with the SPP staff, faculty, and the EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) team to expand sexual harassment, learning in a multicultural classroom and active bystander training opportunities for students and staff. Emma looks forward to continuing this work during the year 2022/23 and hopes to organise speaker events to help her fellow students learn how to advocate for themselves in their workplace and the world.

If you have any comments, concerns, or ideas for Womxn’s Network Advocacy Team, please do not hesitate to reach out to Emma!

Head of Events: Radhika Trivedi

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Radhika is a second year MPA student at the London School of Economics. Before the MPA, she completed her undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Durham University. She is interested in a broad range of policy areas, including tech, education, sustainability, and social protection policy. She has worked in different sectors and loves exploring the intersections of her interests.  

Last year, Radhika was on the Womxn’s Network Advocacy Committee and worked with SPP staff, faculty, students, and LSE-wide organisations such as the Eden Centre and EDI committee. She was also on the research team for the WxN x LSE Change Makers project inquiring into curriculum inclusivity in the SPP. Radhika is passionate about improving representation and diversity in the SPP in a meaningful and intentional way and strives to address this in her broader policy work as well. As Head of Events, Radhika hopes to engage with the experiences of SPP students to create spaces for collaboration, constructive and respectful dialogue, and personal and professional support.

If you’d like to get in touch, please feel free to reach out to Radhika here.

Head of Professional Development: Samantha Piller

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Samantha is a second year MPA student at the London School of Economics. Samantha is interested in a variety of social policy issues including sustainability, gender issues, and equality. Prior to attending LSE she worked to advance various initiatives related to environmentalism and sustainability. It was during this time she discovered a passion for how we can sustainability transform the energy and commercial industries. Moreover, she hopes to develop this interest in her second year, specifically, as it relates to how public policy and economics influence our community, the environment, and the economy.

Samantha’s attraction to catalyzing change is what interested her most in getting involved with the LSE School of Public Policy’s Womxn’s Network. During her first year, she worked on the second Curriculum Diversity Report which sought to further understand what a diverse curriculum means to students and staff. As Head of Professional Development, Samantha is hoping to be able to provide SPP students with the opportunity to develop their skillset, connect with female alumni and build a network of female professionals.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to Samantha.

Head of Communications & Engagement: Anushka Dixit

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Anushka Dixit is a second year Master of Public Administration candidate at the LSE. Prior to the MPA, she worked in the education sector in India, specifically focusing on equity, inclusivity, universal access to education, and child rights. This is where her interest in Education Policy and intersectionality in policy-making stems from.

Anushka hails from India. She received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Finance. This background, along with her experience with the Teach For India and Teach For All communities, helped her start a social enterprise, Just Justice, which works to provide financial and legal literacy in disadvantaged communities in India. Anushka firmly believes that grassroots changes can create sustainable social change and is passionate about social mobilisation through community-building as well as people-powered participatory policymaking.

As a first year MPA Candidate, Anushka was a part of the Womxn’s Network Advocacy Committee and worked with the SPP staff, faculty, and LSE’s EDI team to extend existing training opportunities on sexual harassment, learning in a multicultural classroom and active bystander training to the SPP staff and students. As Head of Communications and Engagement in the upcoming academic year, Anushka aims to create more opportunities and spaces for Network members to interact with each other. She also aims for the Network to partner with inclusive organisations, and maximise our members’ learning by sharing the inspiring work done by womxn across various fields. She will also be overseeing the Network's online and social media presence and hence looks forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.

Please feel free to reach out to Anushka!