Sadya Siddiqui is a policy researcher brought onboard by The Citizenry. Her expertise is deciphering the provincial and municipal public finance budget books and deconstructing development finance arrangements for environmental activists, journalists, lawyers and elected representatives. She looks at the effectiveness of policies at the grassroots level which had led her to many of Karachi’s low-income, coastal and peri-rural areas giving her insights on local politics.
Sadya spent a decade in marketing communications and banking, went on to pursue a degree in poverty reduction with focus on urban poverty and is now in the throes of development studies research to connect digital financial inclusion, informal economy and home-based women workers. She can be found on Twitter:@maverika ranting about the Malir Expressway