Emerging from a Washington, D.C. upbringing in an Indian Telugu Hindu family, she attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology before studying psychology at Amherst College, graduating in 2005. After college she launched her stand-up career in D.C., later moving to Los Angeles and New York to write for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and, in 2015, for Late Night with Seth Mey…
