Rakhee Kewada

Rakhee Kewada is a Teaching Professor at the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) within the Macaulay Honors College at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing on postcolonial economic structures and spatial development. Her work examines structural adjustment policies in Tanzania’s cotton and textile industry post-independence, linking economic systems to racialized spatial formations. Prior to her role at the TLC, she taught Urban Studies courses at Hunter College.

Her research interests span economic development, race and space production, and infrastructure policy. She explores how global economic frameworks intersect with local spatial practices, particularly in postcolonial contexts. Her current doctoral research emphasizes historical materialism and geopolitical economies.

Rakhee supports pedagogical innovation through the TLC, working across Brooklyn, CSI, John Jay, and the Central campuses. She advocates for inclusive education frameworks that integrate critical geography perspectives into urban studies curricula.