Community Wealth Building Fellow

Nairuti Shastry (she/her) is a movement builder, engaged scholar, and facilitator-strategist working toward racial and economic justice that transcends organizational, cultural, and political borders. Founder and principal of Nuance Research, Strategy, & Consulting, LLC, Nairuti supports teams, organizations, and communities to both hospice the old and birth the new in pursuit of more just economic futures. 

Before coming on board as a Community Wealth Building fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, Nairuti worked alongside prominent leaders and organizers in the new economy movement---including the New Economy Coalition, LIFT Economy, and more---to advance regenerative finance infrastructure projects to better resource the transition to a more democratic economy. Previously, Nairuti also served as the Director of Research for Beloved Economies, a storytelling and action initiative demonstrating the power of work to affect economic change. 

Nairuti began her career in higher education at Johns Hopkins University, advancing place-based community engagement to redistribute capital across historically marginalized communities in Baltimore City. Nairuti holds a BA in sociology, French & Francophone studies, and public health from the College of William & Mary and an MBA from LIFT Economy. Outside of work, you can find Nairuti painting in soft pastels, watching Bollywood films, and frolicking along the shores of Lake Michigan with her partner, Daniel, and sweet pup, Rani.