She seeks to strengthen community resilience by surfacing often-overlooked stressors through mixed-methods research, and translating insights into experiential and visual forms for diverse stakeholders.
Currently, as Associate Executive Director at Mandala Arts, a MacArthur award-winning performing arts organization in Chicago, she leads interdisciplinary public art projects that advance the city’s vision for a vibrant and safe urban environment. Previously, Das has served as an Associate at the South Asia Institute at Harvard, where she co-curated Hum Sab Ek, an international exhibition and science communication initiative on the pandemic’s impact on daily-wage workers in India. She has also contributed to research on the impact of extreme heat on social housing in Paris.
She holds a Master’s in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor’s in Industrial Arts and Design Practices from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.
Her recent projects, engaging with resilient livelihoods, public health, natural disasters, urban planning, and education, critically address the need for cross-sectoral collaboration in effective space-making, service design, and delivery. Her projects include Hum Sab Ek (2024–2026), Do No Harm (2024), Forest Futures (2024), and The Black City AstroLabe (2023), supported by the World Bank Group, Self Employed Womens Association, Global Fairness Initiative, and Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.