Pooja Ashokkumar is a public historian, researcher, and educator based in Mumbai. She currently works with Sarmaya Arts Foundation and founded Bombay Tamil History (2024), a personal archival initiative documenting the lesser-documented histories of Mumbai's Tamil community, with a focus on migration, labour, caste, the Dravidian movement, and cultural memory. She also co-founded Vaanga Kekalaam (Come Let's Listen) (2025), a community listening project exploring Tamil film music, memory, and migration. Her writing has appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly, and her 2026 short documentary, Naan Tirunelveli, Nee Entha Ooru (I'm from Tirunelveli, Where Are You From?), co-directed with Rohini Maiti, was selected for the Devi Documentary Focus at the Naadodi Community Screening in Malaysia. Her interest and passion revolve around the ideological and physical materialisation of Babasaheb Ambedkar's clarion call, "Educate, Agitate, Organise."