Krishna Nagarajan approached Critical Mass Ventures with a proposal to help build the foundation's financial inclusion funding thesis from the ground up. Over the summer, his conviction that access to financial, legal, and institutional resources should be a right rather than a privilege sharpened into a well-researched paper. His work translates findings from economics, behavioral science, and development literature into a framework that now guides the giving strategy for CMV. He has also sourced and evaluated funding targets across the sector.
At Boston University's Center on Forced Displacement, he has authored an essay, forthcoming, on financial inclusion for displaced communities. His research surfaces the stark and counterintuitive finding that these communities contribute disproportionately to the very economies that deny them full participation. His earlier work spans immigration law, where he supported disadvantaged immigrants through the U.S. entry process.
Krishna is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Boston University.
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