Mallika Balakrishnan

Mallika Balakrishnan is an Affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

She is a Digital Organiser at Migrants Organise, an award-winning grassroots platform for migrant justice in the UK. She also organises, researches, and campaigns with No Tech For Tyrants, a student-centred collective working to sever the links between higher education and violent technology.

Mallika’s academic work sits at the intersection of political philosophy, technology, and human rights, and Latin America.

A 2019-2021 Marshall Scholar, Mallika holds an MLitt in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy from the University of St Andrews & the University of Stirling, where her work investigated human rights and power in the Global South, as well as an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, where her research explored concepts of democracy in Latin America.

She received a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Agnes Scott College.