Amiya joined Redstone after graduating magna cum laude from Duke University, where she majored in Public Policy Studies and minored in both History and Economics. Her senior thesis evaluated how higher education institutions can promote student political participation through their programming and curricula and earned Highest Distinction in the Public Policy department.
Throughout her time at Duke, Amiya engaged in numerous higher education research projects. She contributed to the recently published The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century by evaluating case studies of new liberal arts universities that have innovated to address modern societal needs. One of these case studies later inspired her senior thesis. More recently, Amiya worked for Duke’s “Democracy and the Politics of American Higher Education” project, where she contributed to a newsletter examining federal threats to democratic values in higher education. Aside from her research, Amiya also led the Editorial Board of Duke’s independent newspaper, The Chronicle, acted as President of the Duke Presidential Ambassadors Program (formerly known as Dukes and Duchesses), and was selected as the undergraduate representative on the Board of Trustees Racial Equity Advisory Council’s Education Subcommittee. In Durham, Amiya also worked as a teaching assistant at Brogden Middle School.
Prior to joining Redstone, Amiya spent her summers in D.C. as an intern on the Hill, a fellow at a reproductive health rights lobbying firm, and a summer analyst at Cornerstone Research. She also spent a year interning for the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, where she had the opportunity to conduct archival research about the history of civil rights activism in Durham, and has worked for several education nonprofits in New York City.
Amiya grew up in New York and enjoys reading, pondering New York Times puzzles, and wheel-throwing (ceramics) classes in her free time.