Richa Gautam is the Founder of the Civil Rights Advocacy think tank CasteFiles, and Executive Director at Cares-Global, a human rights group that works with rehabilitation of refugees. Richa has advocated for civil rights of H4 visa-holding women in the past and as a Data analyst, she has several years of experience in the corporate sector, analyzing consumer behavior for Fortune 500s in the CPG and Pharma sectors globally. In recent years, she has utilized her research skills in AI-based analytics for Social Science projects building documentation and analytics on projects such as Castegate and CasteFiles. She has co-written peer-reviewed research papers regarding caste misconception and social inequality - three were published in an academic anthology recently. She has published articles under her byline for several news magazines and has been interviewed on several media channels. Richa is a senior researcher associated with the Center of Indic Studies at Indus University Ahmedabad. Her research focuses on decoding caste using colonial and emic studies of Indic ethnology. Richa has published numerous articles under her byline for various newspapers internationally and is a speaker and presenter in media and social media.
