Dr. Sunny Sinha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Department at Appalachian State University. She is the author of Risks, Stigma, Agency: Life Histories of Women Involved in Sex Work in Kolkata, India, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and the recipient of the 2018 Michael Agar Lively Science Award. She has considerable social work practice and research experience working with diverse groups of sex workers and the various NGOs reaching out to the sex worker community in Kolkata, India. For nearly two decades (2005-2024), Dr. Sinha has conducted research among women residing in brothels, women indirectly employed in sex work via informal jobs, transgender sex workers, and clients of sex workers.