Neeraja Deshpande

Policy Focus: Louisiana’s Promising “Let Teachers Teach” Initiative
By Neeraja Deshpande
Independent Women, March 2026

The Dating Decade: Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Swiping Right
By Hadley Heath Manning, with Carrie Sheffield and Neeraja Deshpande
Independent Women, February 2026

Policy Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Education
By Neeraja Deshpande
Independent Women, December 2025

Policy Focus: Abolish the Curriculum Monopoly
By Neeraja Deshpande
Independent Women, August 2025

Identity Crisis – The Disjointed Reality in New Mexico: New Mexico Gender Policies Clash with Public Opinion
By Neeraja Deshpande and Inez Stepman, with a foreword by Prisha Mosley
Independent Women, June 2025

Give Teachers a Break: Cutting Red Tape to Unleash the Potential of America’s Great Teachers
By Neeraja Deshpande, with a foreword by Beanie Geoghegan
Independent Women, May 2025

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Stopping the Dangerous Policies Putting Men in Women’s Prisons
By May Mailman and Inez Stepman, with a foreward by Amie Ichikawa, and contributors Beth Parlato, Charlotte Whelan, Neeraja Deshpande, and Britton Miller
Independent Women, December 2024

N. G. Chernyshevsky and the Problem of Freedom
By Neeraja Deshpande
Wellesley College Senior Thesis Repository, April 2023