Anousha Peters

Anousha Peters is a labor, youth, and abolitionist organizer.  She currently works at Labor Notes, which educates workers who are democratizing their trade unions.  She also organizes with Dissenters, a youth anti-militarist organization fighting for the investment of resources in life-giving services.  She previously worked with United for Respect supporting retail employees at Amazon and Walmart who were espousing the cause of dignity in their workplaces.  Anousha studied sociology at Columbia University where she conducted research with professors Adam Reich and Hana Shepherd.  Before transferring, she attended the liberal arts program of Deep Springs College in California for two years.  Originally from Gainesville, Florida, Anousha’s professional and political interests have focused on marginalized and precarious workers.  She enjoys running, watercolor painting, listening to podcasts, and bringing together and hosting friends.

In her Fulbright-Nehru project, Anousha is studying women’s participation in platform gig work in India wherein freelance workers are connected to consumers through online marketplaces.  She is studying the reasons behind women taking up such work, the working conditions they encounter, and their feelings of safety and agency in their work.  While the study is focusing on the city of Hosur in the outskirts of Bengaluru, its learnings will find use across India and beyond since gig work is growing globally and is often conducted on transnational platforms.