Priyanka is a trauma-informed policy practitioner, studying restorative justice. As a response to several waves of #MeToo at her alma mater, she started creating after-care interventions. As part of the university’s task force against harassment, she helped write policy and assemble credible resources for survivor-victims. She believes that every case of harassment is also a case of trauma and should be prioritised as such. The Centre for Restoration was born as a result.

Priyanka Mehta is a postgraduate scholar from the Indian School of Public Policy where her thesis modelled the need for public-private contracts to mitigate the short-run problem of non-biodegradable sanitary waste accumulation. Prior to which she graduated from Ashoka University. Her professional stints range from successfully co-creating education interventions for the State government of Uttarakhand and working with the Boston Consulting Group to tackle malnutrition in Bihar. Her interests in community service have led her to volunteer with Breakthrough to address and improve Haryana’s sex-ratio, as she remains an active member of the Lions International Association for over 10 years. Her multidisciplinary domain interests span through gender studies, climate infrastructure, health policy analysis and postcolonial literature.