Pallavi Govindnathan is a transnational, interdisciplinary visual artist and gender and violence studies scholar. Born in India, and grew up in Thailand, she moved to the United States to pursue an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1999. She majored in Painting and minored in Drawing and Sculpture. In 2009, she moved to San Francisco to complete a Post- Post-Baccalaureate and Master’s degrees in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Calling various geographical locations her home, she has dedicated her academic life to studying cultural and social concerns that violate human rights, focusing primarily on violence against women and girls in South Asia. In 2010, Pallavi published a book titled, Corrode: An Artist’s Response to Acid Violence in South Asia, working alongside Cornell Law School’s Avon Center for Women and Justice and Duke University Press Public Culture. Pallavi has also been peer-reviewed by Public Culture. Her research and activism are based on acid violence in South Asia, a body of work to which she has dedicated her life for two decades. Pallavi has also jointly published work on social norms and attitudes toward women’s entitlement to land in India, and on knowledge economy and gender inequality, published by Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press. She has exhibited in Canada, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and the United States. Her dissertation is titled A Battleground of Scars: Acid Violence Against Women and Girls in the Indian News Media.