Nairuti Shastry is a member of the Well-Being Economy Writing Cohort, an initiative of New America’s Family Economic Security and Well-Being portfolio and the Well-Being Economy Alliance. Launched in 2025 by FESW Fellow Elizabeth Garlow, it convenes a small group of writers working at the intersection of economics, policy, and well-being.
Shastry is also the inaugural Director of Policy & Research at the Center for Economic Democracy (CED), where she leads the organization's translocal efforts to seed an economy that works for us all. Prior to joining CED, Shastry spent eight years as a movement operative, supporting organizations and communities to hospice the old and birth the new in pursuit of more just economic futures. Shastry holds a BA in sociology, French and Francophone studies, and public health from the College of William & Mary and a Next Economy MBA from LIFT Economy.