Meet Our Inaugural Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow – Shreyanka Mirchandani Changaroth

Shreyanka is the Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow (“WKRE”) for the 2022-23 academic year. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law, technology, and social justice. In particular, she aims to tackle issues relating to digital inequity, privacy and surveillance, and how the existing legal and technology landscape plays a role in nurturing and perpetuating systemic inequities. During her time as WRKE fellow, she hopes to explore the various ways in which the IP regime may be dissected and overhauled to advance free knowledge objectives, and to bridge global and national digital divides.

Shreyanka obtained her LL.B. from the University of Nottingham in the UK, her LL.M. in Law and Technology from the University of Ottawa in Ontario, and was called to the Singapore bar in 2016. She previously worked in private practice both as a litigation and corporate lawyer, before moving into the technology and innovations industry.

Shreyanka on her interest in this fellowship:

“The advancement of technology has contributed and created divides that the law has been notoriously ill-equipped to tackle. However, these problems represent brand new opportunities to dismantle the inequitable foundations upon which our society has rested for centuries. Knowledge might still be the dominion of the powers that be, but the promise of digitization means that opportunities abound for us to set knowledge and humanity free.”