Aishu Balaji is the Coordinator of Research and Programs at Regions Refocus, which is the Co-Chair and Secretariat of the Gender and Trade Coalition.
She has also undertaken research on the development industry through a critical lens as a master student at the London School of Economics and a research assistant to development academics. Her areas of inquiry have included caste-intersectionality in the Indian women movement, the political organizing of asylum seekers, autonomous development in post-independence Somaliland, and the politics of return migration.
