Aarti is a researcher and development consultant in a pursuit to empower communities and build ecosystems with ideas, knowledge, skills and technology. She graduated with a degree in Social Development and Policy and recently completed a design leader lab on the theme of gender equality and social justice at the Swedish Institute to strengthen her ability as a leader and contribute to peaceful and inclusive societies through design and advocacy.

Currently, she is working at Engro Foundation as a Sustainability Associate and is overseeing the design models, fundraising and monitoring and evaluation of different inclusive projects for several Engro portfolios. In addition, she works with Shirkat Gah, Insan Foundation Trust and UNDP as a trainer and facilitator for women and young girls with the aim to empower women against gender inequality and structural violence against women with a focus of mental health and psychosocial needs and to advocate peace and security for women and religious minorities in the city. Her role is to plan, facilitate and manage training workshops and social action initiatives incluiding cycling, boxing and photograhy within the feminist ‘hubs’ of Karachi. Being a part of this network, she has reached around 1, 800 marginalized women over a period of two years through gender sensitization trainings and contributed to grassroots level projects, advocacy campaigns and forums to empower and mobilize women in different parts of Karachi especially small towns and slums in the vicinity like Lyari, Baldia Town and Ibrahim Hyderi.
She is also serving as an Impact Officer at Global Shapers Community Karachi Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Her role includes to train Hub members on successful project design and tools for meaningful measurement, conduct and participate in mid-project reviews to monitor progress in the Hub and collaborate with Impact Officers around the world to develop and track effective metrics for measuring project impact locally and globally.