Rithika is the former Economic Justice Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly. She lives and writes in Providence, where she is finishing her dissertation on representations of work in nineteenth century novels. She is the first elected president of the graduate student union at Brown, GLO-AFT Local 6516, and a founding member of Reclaim RI, a grassroots organization dedicated to building people power in the ocean state. She has work in Teen Vogue, Lux Magazine, The Drift, The Baffler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, and elsewhere. Rithika left NPQ in April 2024 to become the new Director of Communications at The Climate and Community Project.