Mavra Bari is a sociologist, writer, communications and social innovation specialist with a focus on design thinking and behaviour change communications. She has worked in several diverse fields such as journalism and media, NGOs, entrepreneurship and innovation. Her research, writing and work spans an eclectic array of topics such as human rights, social inclusion, urban planning, climate change, democracy and gender politics. Mavra has a keen eye on the global politics surrounding climate change and intersectionality of resource equity. She holds a Masters from University of Amsterdam in Sociology, focusing research on urban narratives and geography, urban marketing, tourism, sustainability and right to do the city. Mavra has rich intersectional insight in to Pakistan’s rural-urban, analogue-digital divides and the language to articulate complex issues and realities. She also double majored in Sociology and English Literature from University of Toronto, Mavra believes in the power of storytelling to connect communities and bring lasting impact.

Appointed as Director of the US State department funded women's entrepreneurship center - WECREATE Pakistan, she represented Pakistan at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 in Silicon Valley where former US President, Barack Obama praised the WECREATE project for bringing more women business leaders in the world. She was project lead for a health mobile application for young women and girls in Pakistan called Zoya.

She was also selected for the European Women's Lobby's AGORA Feminist Summer School in 2017 and trained in transformational learning methodologies. Mavra designed and implemented a public relations and communications strategy at German Green Foundation - Heinrich Boell Stiftung Pakistan. She was also the organisation's Gender Focal Person and in addition to her communications duties and fulfilled tasks for the gender democracy program. She built her capacity at HBS by learning German (beginner) and attended an ecology and gender politics conference in Myanmar, 2019. She is currently researching articles on the gendered dimension of geo-engineering and climate change for HBS HQ.

In her spare time, Mavra is an avid writer/poet, dancer and stand up comedian affiliated with the feminist comedy troupe - Auratnaak.