Shalaka Chauhan is a social designer by training. Her work focuses on urban planning vis-à-vis urban poverty and inequality. She is currently a project associate with the Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA), where she works on participatory city planning and housing rights and engages with informal sector workers and their right to basic services and entitlements. She also coordinates the ‘Main Bhi Dilli’ campaign, a citizen-led intitiative to make Delhi a just, inclusive, and sustainable city, and is associated with the National Hawker Federation.