Rachna Khare currently is a professor in
the School of Planning and Architecture
in Bhopal, India. She formerly served as
the Senior Research Fellow for Jamsetji
Tata, the Universal Design Chair at the
National Institute of Design (NID) in
Ahmedabad, India. The Institute for
Human Centered Design is pleased to
publish Dr. Khare's dissertation at the
Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi,
India where she was awarded a Doctor
of Philosophy degree in Architecture in
2009. Dr. Khare is the mother of son
with autism and he has served as the
inspiration behind her work.