Suparna Bhaskaran is an educator, author, and scholar with experience working in the academy, government, and community organizations. 

She is the Director for Research Partnerships at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. She was a policy researcher in the Just Public Finance Program at the Othering and Belonging Institute (University of California, Berkeley) and a health policy researcher in Ohio Governor Ted Strickland’s administration.

Suparna is a founding member of OPAWL: Building AAPI Feminist Leadership a multi-issue multigenerational grassroots community organization that organizes for social and economic justice and elevates the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary people in Ohio. Suparna directed and taught in the women’s and gender studies program at Antioch College, and taught in the gender and sexuality studies programs at Agnes Scott College and the Ohio State University; and in the Public Policy Program at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University. Her publications include, Made In India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects;  Pinklining: How Wall Street’s Predatory Products Pillage Women’s Wealth, Opportunities, & Futures; and the Color of Wealth in Chicago. She has a BA in Sociology and PhD in Cultural Anthropology.