Sneha Krishnan is an intelligent, thoughtful and diligent researcher and has a passion for languages, films and disasters. A very strange mix but that’s how she lives, with absolute detest to being put in a box. She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from University College London, where she worked on the recovery and resilience of village water and sanitation systems after floods, cyclones and earthquakes in South Asia. She worked for NGOs in India before starting her PhD and has worked with and alongside Indian NGOs throughout her career. She now works as a Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), working with farmers’ and women’s groups in Odisha on improving their livelihoods and nutrition. The work involves using low-cost videos and participatory learning and action methodologies with local community members. She teaches conflict and health and continues to work with NGOs on humanitarian evaluations and programme interventions in post-disaster and conflict settings.
She is on a personal journey to improve social, environmental, health and wellbeing of marginalised populations, and continues to explore avenues to apply lifestyle changes and strategies for minimising plastic consumption, encouraging discussion of feminist intersectionality and subaltern narratives. She is very much interested in the discourse of how engineers, architects, social scientists and health workers frame problems and work together to solve real-life problems