Javeria is a social development specialist with 9y+ experience (private/public sector) in the fields of urban/city planning, social innovation, academia, and design thinking. Currently, Javeria is the Innovation Lead at Code for Pakistan(CFP). CFP focuses on empowering citizens to solve civic problems using technology. Javeria's focus is on defining, implementing and iterating on disruptive localized solutions challenging the status-quo by ensuring community participation, capacity building, and responsive leadership. Javeria has been a part of the team (put together by the Law Commission of Pakistan) behind a first-of-its-kind policy to neutralize the growing urban housing crisis of the country. She has worked on a number of projects for the Govt. of Pakistan that include a framework for stakeholder inclusiveness in urban planning, a scalable smart-tech low-cost housing module, an open-government operational model that allows shared ownership between the government and low-income community. Javeria also worked with the countrys' Minister of Planning to establish an urban-unit that works as a national-level think tank to cater for challenges and opportunities w.r.t. the 4IR. She works with cross-functional teams to measure impact-metrics and constantly improve the sustainability and scalability of each project. Javeria teaches design, social entrepreneurship, and ethnographic research (undergrad). Her research has been presented/published at conferences/journals including Volume, IJAR, SEANES, Interdisciplinary.net, IAPS-CSBE, and IGRS. Javeria is a big advocate for animal rights, inclusive design and human geography. She was a curator of Global Shapers Islamabad Hub'15 and she spoke at AMNC'17