Niyati Dave was a former Communications Officer for the Tacit Knowledge Urban Research Network (TURN), a collaborative research project on urban informal processes being conducted by CPR, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and Hyderabad Urban Lab (HUL). Her role includes the production of multi-media outputs, recognising and building synergies between members of the research network and creating and maintaining a research archive.
She was previously the Editorial Digital Assistant at the Economic and Political Weekly, where she was in charge of all social media channels and also wrote a monthly feature, the Reading List. She holds a BA in Art History from Smith College, Massachusetts, USA and was part of the Urban Fellows Programme at IIHS in 2016-2017.