Poulomi has close to fourteen years’ experience in the development sector, working on issues of gender rights including women’s economic empowerment, gender-based violence and critical analysis of policies. She has worked full time with research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and as consultant with the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UN Women. She has been engaged as external/ internal member of the Internal Committee on sexual harassment at workplace in several organisations. She was last working with the International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi as Technical Specialist-Violence Rights and Inclusion. Currently she works as an independent consultant.
Poulomi has her graduation in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and subsequently earned her Masters, M. Phil and Doctoral degrees at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has a post graduate diploma in Universalizing Social Security for the Poor from ISS (Institute of Social Studies), Hague, Netherlands. She was affiliated with Amherst College SWAGS (Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies) Department, as a Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 2016-2017. Her work inquired into existing models of one-stop crisis centers for survivors of gender-based violence in the U.S and India.