Born in India and raised in Canada, Raksha Vasudevan is a journalist and former aid worker. She has reported on issues of environmental justice, housing, and “progress” for New York Times, VICE, Guardian, and High Country News, where she is also a contributing editor. Her essays and commentary on colonial legacy and family estrangement appear in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Guernica, and LitHub, among others. At Mesa, she worked on her nonfiction debut, Empires Between Us, which follows her five years as a South Asian aid worker in Africa and interrogates the desire for and limits of solidarity within colonial legacies of aid work, caste, exploitation, and whiteness. You can learn more about Raksha Vasudevan here.