Her areas of specialization are employment, poverty alleviation, informal economy, and gender.
She lived in Bangladesh working with BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations, and in India, as field representative of Oxfam America for India and Bangladesh for 15 years.In 2011, she received the Padma Shri from the Government of India for her contributions in the field of social work.
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