Gayatri Sethi

Gayatri Sethi (PhD) is an educator, writer, and community builder. She teaches and writes about Social Justice, Global Studies, and Comparative Education. She is a learner of decolonization, liberation and abolition. Born in Tanzania and raised in Botswana, she is of Punjabi descent, multilingual, and polycultural. She reflects on these lifelong experiences of identity, immigration, and belonging in her award-winning non-fiction book titled Unbelonging.

She is also an advocate for KidLit community, as a creator of initiatives to build solidarity among diaspora writers for young people. When she is not sipping coffee, she is reading or recommending reads on TikTok or Instagram as @desibookaunty.