Biography

Nidhi Satyagal is a first year student in the Asian American Studies Master’s program. She is a lifelong Southern California resident who graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2023 with a degree in Economics and a minor in History. In the last year, she has been working in community outreach and prevention with a non-profit domestic violence agency that provides culturally sensitive services to primarily South Asian survivors. Nidhi is interested in the South Asian diaspora, particularly the ways that right wing Hindutva politics and caste are recreated in ordinary spaces and communities occupied by second generation South Asian Americans.