Dr. Joshi is the author or editor of six books and has published ground-breaking scholarly and popular work that informs educators, thought leaders, and everyday people about race, religion, and immigration in 21st century America.

As a writer and researcher steeped in theory and scholarship, Dr. Joshi combines academic rigor with a conversational style that engages every audience. After more than 20 years of teaching, she can take the most complex research and theory and bring it to life with stories that resonate — drawing on her lived experience, her students, and the communities she has worked with.

Dr. Joshi is member and past Co-Chair of the managing board for the Asian Pacific American Religion Research Initiative (APARRI), and serves as co-Principal Investigator on two Luce Foundation grants totaling $1.5 million to support scholarship and promote public engagement on the religious realities of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. She delivered her research on Hindu American communities at the White House in 2010, and co-authored the groundbreaking 2019 Report on the State of Asian Americans in New Jersey for Jersey Promise.

She has appeared on MSNBC, CBS, BNC (the Black News Channel), C-Span, and India’s NDTV news network. Her work has been quoted in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and she writes on “Living Religion” for Religion News Service. She earned her doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, her Master of Theological Studies at the Candler School of Theology, and her Bachelors’ degrees at Emory University.