Radhika is a writer and researcher with an interest in environment, gender, land rights and sustainable lifestyles. She spent her early career working in mental health and youth advocacy, later moving to community media, where she focused on creating networks of citizen journalists and developing partnerships with grassroots movements, feminist organisations, community media practitioners, and citizen led advocacy intitiatives across India. She currently consults with rights based organisations and funders like Brot für die Welt, Oxford Policy Management, Rutgers (Netherlands) and Women’s Funds Asia to document, evaluate and research their work to better understand the scope of advocacy and impact of their programs. Most recently, she was trained in QuIP methodology, a non-experimental, goal free approach evaluation approach researched and developed at the University of Bath, UK. She is a former Fellow of Change.org Foundation (India), where she worked with a cohort of over 150 female campaigners using digital action to escalate campaigns. 

Radhika serves as Advisor, Strategic Partnerships, with Aarambh India, a Mumbai based non-profit focused on prevention of child sexual abuse and exploitation. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender, Culture and Development Theories & Practice, from the Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune.