Ekta Shaikh is a Pakistani oral historian and interdisciplinary researcher working across feminist anthropology, gender studies, and public/digital humanities. Her work explores how women navigate space, memory, and everyday violence across Karachi and New York, with particular attention to domestic life, transit, and the infrastructures that shape intimacy and belonging. She experiments with form—oral history as sound, installation, and interactive archive—building participatory projects that invite publics into practices of listening, address, and care. Going forward, she will continue developing collaborative oral history work with women across both cities, expanding her multimodal methods and public-facing research practice.