Shikshya Adhikari

Shikshya Adhikari is the Research Associate at the Center for American Women and Politics. She has three years of experience working as a mixed-methods researcher and managing research projects at the Center for Policy Research, University at Albany. She has also worked for disaster response projects at CARE Nepal for two years, where she conducted baseline and impact assessment studies, reported on projects’ progress and reach, helped manage grants, and wrote funding proposals.

She is passionate about using data to tell interesting stories. She has experience working with advanced statistical techniques and data analysis tools. She has an M.A. in Political Science from University at Albany, SUNY and an M.S. in Sociology from Illinois State University. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Maryland.