Sarika Doppalapudi (she/her) is an undergraduate student at NYU
Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her concentration is focused on collective
memory in public spaces, and examines the ways in which disenfranchised communities
remember and archive events. Sarika was born and raised in Chicago, and has worked
with various non-profits and grassroots organizations in Chicago, including working
as a co-founder and organizer for Fempowerment Chicago, and research assistant for
The I Project. Additionally, she has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, as an artist in the 21Minus exhibition, and through hosting an interactive
walk-through of the Prisoner of Love exhibition. Furthermore, she has hosted a
workshop at Chicago’s Weinberg Newton gallery entitled “Revolutionary Love”.
Sarika’s work explores archival spaces and their uses as spaces of liberation. She
is also a freelance baker and textile artist and is interested in using
non-traditional materials to create her textiles, and is currently working on a
crochet project using plastic waste that she collected over the summer of 2021.
