Ajita Banerjie got her Master?s degree in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. As a part of her field project, she worked with the Kathkari Tribe in Maharashtra on issues of bonded labour at brick kilns and the effect of migration on health and education. For her final year dissertation, she studied the Hijra community in Mumbai and their negotiation with heteronormative spaces and structures in a gendered society. She was also an intern with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, where she researched on gender-based violence on the LGBTQI community and sex workers in Bangalore.