Dr. Anshu N. Chatterjee teaches political economy, security, and political developments in the comparative context of South Asia. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Her current research examines development of protest groups in relation to identity politics and state-society relations in disturbed regions in South Asia. Her past research includes globalization, civil society, political parties, and the media. She also worked as a journalist in India.
Ramya Chandrasekhar is a research fellow at BCLT and leads the Biometrics Project. This project aims to study legal and institutional regulation of biometric data, from a critical and comparative perspective.
Shruti M. Deorah is the Director of the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and an Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
Dr. Anibel Ferus-Comelo draws upon nearly 25 years of community-engaged research and teaching in her joint appointment at the Labor Center and the Goldman School of Public Policy. She directs the Labor Studies Program at UC Berkeley through courses, internships, and collaborative research initiatives. Dr. Ferus-Comelo received the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service for her design of service-learning internships and collaborative research projects with community partners involving graduate and undergraduate students.
Professor Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. She then launched One Fair Wage as a national campaign to end all subminimum wages in the United States. Professor Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
