Sharanya is Wonkhe’s SUs Community and Policy Officer. She joins Wonkhe from Middlesex University SU, where she was Senior Campaigns and Influence Coordinator on the union’s Senior Leadership Fast Track – designing policy briefings, coaching elected officers, and translating student insight into campaigns. She launched the Ideas for Change petitioning platform and overhauled the union’s democratic structures to get more students involved across the year.
Before moving into staff roles, Sharanya spent two terms as a sabbatical officer at Royal Holloway SU. In her first term, as VP Education, she co-designed the university’s Access and Participation Plan and managed a network of over 350 academic representatives. In her second term, as President, she led the NeverOk and HelpNotHarm campaigns on harassment, sexual misconduct and drug harm reduction. Sharanya holds a BSc in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Royal Holloway.
Outside of work she can be found in the gym, out on a run, or making ambitious progress on a reading list that has never once got shorter.