Berkley Center

Devika Ranjan (SFS'17) is a theater-maker, ethnographer, and educator who tells stories about migration through performance, research, and advocacy. Her work has been commended by HRH Meghan Markle for its importance for vulnerable people and political crises at large. As resident director at Albany Park Theater Project, she works with immigrant teens to create ethnographic theater about community issues like family separation, food insecurity, and deportation. Ranjan also teaches at Georgetown University, where she was an Inaugural Fellow at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (2017-2019). At the Berkley Center Devika was a student fellow in the 2014-2015 Doyle Undergraduate Fellows program and is teaching a spring 2021 class supported through the Doyle Seminars project. A former Marshall Scholar, Ranjan holds a distinction from the University of Cambridge for her M.Phil. in sociology, an M.A. in applied theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and an undergraduate degree in foreign service, with concentrations in culture and politics and Arabic, from Georgetown University.