RICHA GULATI is a freelance writer and flamenco dancer based in New York City.

She was born and raised in Texas and spent summers with her extended family in north India. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin from the Plan II Honors Program with a focus on Asian studies.

As part of her interest in development initiatives, Richa has worked at the South Asia Program at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C. and Manushi, a non-profit women's organization in Delhi, India.

She began her study of flamenco during college and has continued to dance flamenco for the past nine years in Boston, Tokyo, Madrid, and Seville, Spain. She currently studies flamenco with Omayra Amaya in New York.

Richa received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She spent one semester studying constitutional and family law of India at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Today she lives with her husband in New York City.