Lipi Shetty

Lipi Shetty is a Spring 2025 Scoville fellow at the Arms Control Association. She is passionate about advancing nuclear disarmament and arms control while prioritizing nuclear justice. Her interests are studying the humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear colonialism, combating risks associated with global nuclear modernization programs, and using interdisciplinary approaches to further disarmament. She is a former participant of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation’s Young Women in Nonproliferation Initiative, where she studied international disarmament and nonproliferation frameworks under her mentor María Antonieta Jácquez Huacuja, Coordinator for Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. She was also a participant in the 2023 Hiroshima-ICAN Learning Academy on “Nuclear Weapons and Global Risks”, where she learned from global hibakusha, government officials, academic experts, and grassroots nonprofits. Lipi recently participated in the Third Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, as a delegate with Youth for TPNW and volunteer with ICAN.