Alysha Banerji is a doctoral student at HGSE in the Culture, Institutions and Society concentration and an Editor at the Harvard Educational Review. Her research focuses on the ethics of immigration and civic education for cosmopolitan citizenship. Before coming to Harvard, Alysha worked in college access in the US; and managed the national expansion of the India School Leadership Institute, an organization that provides leadership training for principals of public and low-income private schools across India. She also worked as an Assistant Education Specialist at UNESCO Santiago, Chile, supporting the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Alysha holds a BA in Philosophy from Hamilton College, and an M.S.Ed in International Education Development from the University of Pennsylvania