Mallika Gupta
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Oakland

Mallika Gupta

Associate
Mallika is committed to achieving mobility justice for underserved communities through people-centered and community-led planning.

Mallikais passionate about improving safe access to affordable and sustainabletransportation for socially vulnerable and historically underserved communities.Mallika’s strengths include data visualization, multi-lingual storytelling, andinclusive community engagement that helps involve diverse voices into planningand designing pedestrian, bicycle, and transit infrastructure.

Priorto joining Nelson\Nygaard, Mallika worked as a research associate at CEPTUniversity and Safetipin, developing policies and placemaking strategies toreduce gender-based violence on transit across South Asia and South America.Mallika also volunteers at a non-profit in India to design urban acupuncturesthat help uplift and empower street-connected children.

Education

Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley