Shruthi Jayaram

Shruthi Jayaram co-leads the Global Gender Equity practice at Dalberg Advisors, a strategy consulting firm focused on building a more inclusive and sustainable world. Based in the SF Bay Area, Shruthi works with a range of non-profits, foundations, and movement leaders to develop strategies, conduct evaluations, and establish field-building initiatives, with a particular focus on:

- women’s economic mobility
- earning living wages, income growth, equitable workforce participation etc.
- racial equity and intersectional analysis
- women's unpaid care work in the US and the US care economy more broadly, including private investment in care
- reducing gendered violence including online violence
- advancing reproductive rights

Her clients include the Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility and Opportunity Team, the Urban Institute’s Research to Action Lab, Blue Meridian Partners, the Hewlett Foundation’s Gender Equity and Governance Portfolio, the National Abortion Federation, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance Labs team, among others. Prior to joining Dalberg, Shruthi worked as an economist and policymaker in the public and private sector, including at Cornerstone Research in New York.

She holds a dual Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s SIPA and the National University of Singapore, and a B. A. in Economics from St. Stephen’s College at the University of Delhi. She is on the Advisory Board of three organizations – Tahirih Justice Center, an organization that supports immigrant survivors of violence in SF; Career Girls, an organization that seeks to bridge the imagination gap between young girls and boys nationwide; and ShePersisted, an organization that tackles gendered violence online globally. Shruthi has also authored numerous reports and articles on gender equality and social justice, including recent publications on the role of private investment in the US care economy, the case for valuing women and girls’ unpaid care work, and how the philanthropy sector needs to shift to help build a more equitable future.