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Meet Our Team

Dedication | Expertise | Passion

Our team is woven from diverse fields and expertise, each thread contributing its unique hue to our collective vision of FOLK.  We converge with a shared passion of conserving indigenous knowledge systems for a greater purpose.

 Our Founders and Directors

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Mohini Mehta

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Mohini (she/her) is a doctoral scholar in Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She holds an MA degree in Social Anthropology from Central European University (CEU), Hungary, and an MA in Social work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India. She finished her undergraduate degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Her academic work lies at the intersection of postcolonial feminism, identity politics and food studies. As a former social worker, she has worked in the rural hamlets of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, imparting life skill training to adolescents suited to their cultural context. She has previously been associated with the communications department of Magic Bus India Foundation (Noida, Uttar Pradesh), and has been an academic writing tutor at Ashoka University (Sonipat, Haryana). She has facilitated sessions on academic writing skills with students from University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She has also been on board as the co-facilitator of the storytelling module for the fellowship program of Contree, a Jaipur based NGO. Mohini is a spoken word poet who writes and performs poetry on gastropolitics, feminism, sexuality, and subaltern sentiments. She is a bilingual translator and a professional storyteller. She documents her academic musing on food on instagram as @qissa_e_niwala

 Associate Folks 

Our Team

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