Ravina Aggarwal | Program Officer for Media Rights and Access, Ford Foundation

 

Dr. Ravina Aggarwal is the Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s Advancing Media Rights and Access initiative in India. Her grant making is focused on policy planning for increasing access to broadband and broadcast for the poor. Ravina spent 12 years at Smith College in Massachusetts, where she taught in the anthropology department. Her scholarship focused on media studies, political anthropology, gender and expressive culture. Her most recent research explored the significance of regional radio in India. Ravina’s extensive field research in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh on the Indian border resulted in several publications, including an ethnographic book, two edited volumes and various articles.