Vaivab Das is a PhD scholar at IIT Delhi and currently a Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Their work focuses on understanding how transgender and gender nonconforming individuals navigate citizenship and elections as voters, political representatives, and dissidents.
As a student, Vaivab has actively worked towards the recognition of diverse gender and sexual minorities as protected categories, building gender-affirming infrastructures, and creating community spaces for LGBTQIA+ students in various educational institutions.
They are also the co-founder of the LGBTQIA+ rights watchdog page, Yes, We Exist.