Sahith has a masters in development from Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has been working in the field of development with farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and facilitating women self-help groups in Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh under the State Rural Livelihood Mission (SRLM). Currently, he is an intern at the Economics Centre of World Resource Institute, India, where he is part of a research team working on agro-ecology and ecosystem services.