Sarah Khan

Age: 23

Home Town: Douglasville, Georgia

Education: Georgetown University

Specific Field Interests: Caste, Gender, Labor and Postcolonial Development

Placement: Kriti Social Initiatives, Hyderabad, Telangana

Area of Focus: Women Empowerment, Livelihoods

Fellowship Project: Implementing skills-based training programs to support women's economic empowerment

Highlights: Sarah will serve as an American India Foundation (AIF) Banyan Impact Fellow with Kriti Social Initiatives based in Hyderabad, Telangana. She will support implementing innovative skills-based training programs that facilitate women’s economic empowerment. Sarah graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, majoring in Culture and Politics with a concentration in Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Development. Through this coursework, Sarah understood the centrality of identity, capital, and labor in discussions of humanitarianism and development. Sarah’s senior thesis explores the intersection of race, gender, and desirability in techno-sex economies. In addition to her academic interests, Sarah is very passionate about teaching having worked as an instructor for the Yale Young Global Scholars Program, a volunteer teacher for low-income youth in Washington, DC with Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice, and an ESL teacher for newly resettled refugees in Atlanta through the International Rescue Committee. She has also served as a DEI consultant and dialogue facilitator for Georgetown’s Center for Multicultural Equity and Access. Sarah spent the summer in Lucknow studying Urdu as a recipient of the US State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship and is overjoyed to be returning to India. Sarah looks forward to the opportunity to work closely with the communities she serves to help facilitate financial stability and agency for poor, uneducated women.