Biography
Rinku Sen
What do you do? I currently run Narrative Initiative, where I lead a strategy hub that supports social justice in moving the ideas and stories that make equity and justice common sense and foundational to our democracy. I work with grassroots organizers, philanthropists, creators and distributors to raise the voices of people working together to design, fight for and implement solutions that enable all of us to take good care of ourselves, our families, our communities and our environments.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? I was a Women’s Studies concentrator at Brown, with a focus on Comparative Literature, which I chose after floating for three semesters, and which was definitely driven by my entry into campus organizing for racial and gender justice. I became an organizer after college, working largely on racial, economic and gender justice. The things I studied, and the people I studied with, taught me a lot about power, how it is represented, and how people claim it for themselves and the things they want to make happen. Gender justice, with all of its racial, class and ability dimensions, is key to a just democracy in which we all share in the benefits and responsibilities of that democracy.