Uma Kalkar is a dual-degree candidate for a Master of Public Policy specializing in Digital and New Technology at Sciences Po and a Master of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
She is the Innovation Director of 18by Vote, a youth-led non-profit that helps 16. 17. and 18-year-olds understand how to vote when to vote, and why to vote. 18by Vote has been at the forefront of the youth voting movement, during the 2020 election cycle, they reached over 2 million people to raise awareness of the Presidential and Senate Runoff elections. 18by Vote has been featured on The Daily With Trevor Noah, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and more.
Uma is also a Research Intern in the Data Research Program at The Governance Lab at NYU, where she works on cross-cutting methodologies for data stewardship and governance. Her work focuses on digital inequities, open data initiatives and civic organizing in digital spaces.
Uma was a 2019-2020 Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) researching the political effects of the urban-rural digital divide in the United States. Uma holds a B.Sc (Honors) majoring in Peace Conflict and Justice and double minoring in Mathematics and Biology from the University of Toronto.
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Atharv Agrawal (host)
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Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)
