Shreya Raj Bhutani is a Master of Urban Planning student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is from the Philadelphia area and received her Bachelor’s degree in the Growth and Structure of Cities with a minor in Educational Studies from Bryn Mawr College.
She has lived in Taipei, Taiwan, through the Fulbright program, interned with the City of Philadelphia and the ACLU, and worked at a social services center for immigrants in her hometown.
She is interested in the intersection of socioeconomic status, gender, and property in South Asian diasporic communities. She is examining South Asian-owned and operated eyebrow threading parlors through the lens of urban planning and land use law. Her research aims to illuminate the role of cosmetic home businesses in larger social and economic networks.
