About Debotri Dhar

Dr. Debotri Dhar is an award-winning author-educator and the founder of the Hummingbird Global Leaders Forum and Writers' Circle.  

Debotri  has lived multiple lives in India, the United States, United Kingdom, and other spaces in-between. A traveler across countries, a scholar across disciplines, and a writer across genres – academic and popular, creative nonfiction and fiction - she has authored books, articles, essays, policy papers and edited volumes. A public speaker, Dr. Dhar has given lectures, papers, and presentations at universities such as Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Boston, U-Penn, Michigan, Delhi, and Oxford,, non-university settings such as the British Council and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and venues more accessible to a wider audience. 

Dr Dhar earned a Bachelors (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University (India), Masters in Women's Studies, with distinction, from the University of Oxford (UK), and Ph.D in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, and was a visiting scholar at Boston University.  She has served as an expert panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Indian Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, a reviewer for well-known publishers, and a judge for the Barbara Deming Fund for women writers, New York. For several years she lectured at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as core faculty in Women's and Gender Studies and the International Institute, where she held faculty affiliations with the Center for Finance, Law and Policy, the Donia Human Rights Center, and the Center for the Education of Women, and partnered with the Ford School of Public Policy's International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center. (Read Roots &Wings,' about her journey and work as an educator at https://socialmedia.umich.edu/blog/roots-wings/) 

Dr. Dhar has also lent her interdisciplinary expertise to public, private and non-profit organizations.  She is passionate about translating complex ideas from theory into practice, to maximize individual, institutional, and societal well-being. She communicates on local and global issues with a wider audience via newspapers and magazines, radio and television.  (Watch a TV interview here: https://www.wxyz.com/news/upfront/whats-next-for-the-women-of-afghanistan )

Debotri's other interests include Indian classical music, painting, cinema, and the culinary arts. She likes, in no particular order, mountains and middle mists, raindrops and riverside walks, the first snow of the season, hummingbirds, laughter and love. (Listen to a radio interview: https://www.wemu.org/term/debotri-dhar#stream/0)