Suparna Bhaskaran is a scholar, teacher and author with experience working in the academy, government, and community organizations. She taught and directed programs at Antioch College, Agnes Scott College, Ohio Wesleyan, and the Ohio State University. As Director of Research Partnerships at The Institute on Race Power and Political Economy at The New School she managed the Color of Wealth in Chicago study that examined the relationship between wealth, political power, and identity hierarchies; as Senior Policy Researcher in the Just Public Finance Program at the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley she worked on the Detroit water crisis during its municipal bankruptcy; and as Senior Healthcare Policy Researcher in Ohio Governor Strickland’s administration she worked on research and policy related to various arenas of the US healthcare landscape. Suparna is a founding member of OPAWL: Building AAPI Feminist Leadership a multi-issue multigenerational diasporic community organization that organizes for social, political 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. She has a BA in Sociology and PhD in Anthropology.