Gayatri Sethi (PhD) is an educator, writer, and cultural worker. She teaches and writes about Social Justice, Global Studies, and Comparative Education. As a learner of decolonization, liberation and abolition, she unequivocally supports the Palestinian liberation movement. Much as the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa inspired her early scholarly pursuits, solidarity with Palestine undergirds her current caregiving and public education undertakings.
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 a contributor to Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell.
She is also an earnest advocate for KidLit community, as a creator of initiatives to build solidarity among diaspora writers for young people. When she is not reading or recommending reads as @desibookaunty, she is envisioning traveling, collaborating and gathering for liberation in collectives.