Nikita Shukla is a second year Masters in Public Policy student at Harvard Kennedy School. She's a research associate at the Bloomberg Center Data Smart City Solutions and hopes to use this work to inform subnational diplomacy at the federal level in her future career as a Foreign Service Officer.  Additionally, she taught as a Teaching Fellow for GENED1093 with Professor Kleinman and found teaching to be the highlight of her year thus far! Prior to starting at Harvard, Nikita served as a senior data associate at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she supported health workforce scale-up and national strategic plans for Ministries of Health in Malawi and Ethiopia.