Aparajita Mridha, Harvard Kennedy School
Aparajita Mridha is a Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration (MC/MPA) student at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a civil servant with the Government of India and has extensive experience in legislative drafting and Parliamentary procedure. Prior to joining the government, she worked as a lawyer and consultant for non-profit organizations working with survivors of domestic violence. Her areas of focus include the intersection of geopolitics, representation and security in South and South-East Asia.
At HKS, she is the Managing Director of the HKS Student Policy Review, as well Co-Chair of both the Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Professional Interest Council and the Student Public Service Collaborative, respectively.
Past Chairs of Programming (formerly Chair of Student Life):
- Prabhroop Chawla (HDS) & Shreya Verma (HES), 2022-2023
- Estefania Garcia (HES), 2021-2022
- Angela Han (HES), 2020-2021
- Tracie Gordon (HES), 2019-2020
- Matthew Schaeffer, 2018-2019
- Payum Noshiravan, 2017-2018
- Krishna Rajendren, 2016-2017
- Peter Dyrud, 2015-2016
- Dolly Amaya, 2014-2015