Meet Kavya Srikanth: 2022-23 Caste Project Intern

Kavya Srikanth

Meet our 2022-23 Caste Project Intern, Kavya Srikanth!

What do you want people to know about you?

I am a coterminal master’s student in theoretical computer science with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science. I joined CSA last year as a Caste Project Intern and continue to help organize some of your favorite CSA events. I spent my last summer as an editorial intern for The Juggernaut, a publication for global South Asians, and continue to draft think pieces for them. Outside of my academics and work, I enjoy reading, writing, and dancing. You can find me spending way too long to pick out an outfit, or waiting in line at Salt and Straw.

What do you want to accomplish as a Caste Project Intern?

My aim as a Caste Project Intern is to uproot caste as a subliminal framework for upper-caste diasporic South Asians to relate to their identity. In doing so, I want to bring light to the simultaneous invisibility and deep embedding of caste into the colonial politics of South Asian diasporic migration, and its intersections with class, race, and conquest. Although this struggle is global, I want to continue this fight at Stanford, which is the epitome of an institution built off of these dynamics of classism, elitism, casteism, and anti-Indigeneity.