Nairuti Shastry (she/her) is an educator, engaged scholar, and movement builder 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 both hospice the old and birth the new in pursuit of new economic realities spanning sectors as diverse as healthcare, education, tech, philanthropy, social services, and international development and finance. Previously, Nairuti served as the Director of Research for Beloved Economies, a story-telling and action initiative demonstrating the power of work to affect economic change. Nairuti began her career in higher education at the Johns Hopkins University, advancing place-based community engagement and redistributing capital across historically marginalized communities in Baltimore. She has also served as a Community Impact Fellow at Break Away, promoting quality civic engagement programming to connect campus and community across the United States. Nairuti holds a BA in Sociology, French & Francophone Studies, and Public Health from the College of William & Mary and an MBA from LIFT Economy.