PERSON: Kavitha Rajagopalan

World Policy Institute

Senior Fellow

Kavitha Rajagopalan is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, specializing in global migration and the future of citizenship, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is the author of Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West (Rutgers University Press 2008), which was the finalist for the Twelfth Asian American Literary Award in Nonfiction, and is co-author of The Testing and Learning Revolution: The Future of Assessment in Education (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) with leading education scholar Edmund W. Gordon. She has appeared on MSNBC and other local television programming, and is an opinion and commentary contributor at The New York Observer.

She was previously a columnist for Newsday and PBS, and has written for Next City, The Feminist Review and various academic and policy magazines. She has contributed a chapter to an edited volume on child migrants and her writing was featured in a book on third sex in India. Between 1998 and 2001, she was a reporter in Chennai, India and Berlin, Germany. She holds an MA from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and a BA from the College of William & Mary, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a John J. McCloy Journalism Fellowship and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.

She is currently at work on a literary nonfiction book about the future of citizenship in the age of global movement.

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