As you read this, you might already know the feeling I'm about to describe. Maybe you've felt it in a meeting room, or at a family gathering, or somewhere in between the two. That quiet sense of having to become someone slightly different, depending on who's in the room.

Two worlds, one story

My life sits at the intersection of two worlds that don't often talk to each other. By day, I lead corporate communications, supporting CEOs and executive teams - a world I've come to know well over 20+ years. It's taught me how boardrooms really work, how to hold a room under pressure, and how to help others find their voice, right when it matters most. And it's shown me, first-hand, what it feels like to find your own voice - or quietly lose it - in rooms that were never built with women of colour in mind. You may know that feeling too.

My heart work

I founded The Brown Girls Club, an intergenerational community for South Asian women, a space I wish I'd had growing up. Alongside it, I run a coaching practice helping South Asian women own their voice and step into the power of their story. Because the moment you stop editing yourself down is the moment everything else starts to shift. I've built everything I've learned about identity, visibility, and influence, from sitting in boardrooms where I rarely saw anyone who looked like me.

Why this work matters to me?

Growing up Anglo-Indian in Australia, I spent most of my life feeling too brown to be Australian, and too white to be Indian. I learned early to read a room and become whatever it needed, rather than risk being fully myself in it. That instinct followed me for years, into the workplace too, where I quietly downplayed my opinions, my ambition, and my story, just to fit in. At 30, even the identity I thought was solid turned out not to be what I believed. Discovering the truth about my biological father, and the role caste played in his rejection of me, broke something open in me. And in the breaking, something else became possible, the chance to finally know myself.

What drives me now

Becoming a mum of two girls has sharpened all of this into something far more urgent than a passion project. Watching them navigate the world has turned this work into a responsibility. I can't ask my daughters to take up space unapologetically if I'm not willing to do it myself, first. I'm not here as a polished perfectly finished story, and you don't need to be either. What I bring is a real story, told honestly, backed by two decades of experience in high-stakes rooms, and driven by a genuine hope that sharing it helps someone else feel a little less alone in theirs.

I'm on a mission to help South Asian women lead as their whole, fully expressed selves until visibility for women like us is so ordinary, our daughters never notice it was ever anything else.

If any part of this feels familiar to you, you're exactly where you need to be.