Manjiri Dube is the Head of Programs for Khoj International Artists’ Association. In 2019, she led its four-year-long multi-city socially-engaged art project Peripheries & Crossovers: art as social practice. She has led two editions of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia program at Khoj and facilitated Rockefeller Foundation’s collaboration with Khoj for the Bellagio Centre Residency Program (2024). Apart from ideating, conceptualising, writing and executing programs with the team at Khoj, Manjiri is also responsible for Khoj’s fundraising and organisation building activities.

In her previous stint at Khoj between 2012- 2014, she led the Food Residency Ed. (III) as a Curator and Program Manager. Through the socially-engaged art projects supported by Khoj, Manjiri is committed to initiating conversations and exploring collaborative frameworks that bring artists, academics, cultural practitioners, researchers and civil society organisations together to unpack the value of creative methodologies in addressing social issues. She co-authored a piece for the Hybrid Publication started by the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi in Pakistan titled Imagined Utopias: Art as Social Practice, (2022).

Manjiri has a Masters in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick, UK, and has worked in the social sector with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi. She has worked with NDTV Good Times in Mumbai as a part of their advertorial team, and subsequently went on to work with Here&Now365 in London on a social marketing campaign for diverse ethnicities across the UK.