Arpita Appannagari lives in New York City and works as the Liv Ullman Fellow for the Women's Refugee Commission. She graduated with her Master's in Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in May, 2015 and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish, Biology, and Gender Studies from Indiana University. Arpita spends her free time becoming too emotionally invested in the lives of fictional characters in TV and books, talking to dogs on the sidewalk but not their owners, and showing strangers pictures of her two-month-old niece, the best person she knows.