Bhawna is an anti - caste librarian, community organizer, mobilizer and social justice movement activist and a researcher.

Her work is informed by the critical pedagogy of Educator and Philosopher Paulo Freire and the stance of ethics in doing justice work. She advises on building frameworks of accountability, anti - Caste practices in the community libraries,  doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with the language between and among the community worker and the community.

She believes and builds theories and approaches of anti - caste and anti - oppression from her communities' everyday life experiences and practices of their culture, languages, know - hows. Her quest to build the society who’s the ‘Knowledge of Self’ in the complex power dynamics and intersection around Caste, Gender, Ability, Class, Ethnicity, Language, Religion and so many more aspects in the society reflects in making sense of stories of people.

She is a firm believer and practitioner of the alignment and integrity of ideas (Fluid/evolving), speech and practice which is the key to continue making changes in society and her own life.

Bhawna has done her M.phil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She had her Master’s in political science and Post Graduate Diploma in Child Rights from Jamia Millia Islamia. She graduated with a South Asian Diploma in Narrative Practices. Currently working with the community library project as Director. Her interests are taking naps during the day, having tea anytime with anyone and in solitude, reading children’s picture books, telling and listening to stories of the communities and to engage and build the communities.