By Saatvik Amravathi, State and Local Innovation Intern
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Saatvik Amravathi as a State and Local Innovation Intern for Summer 2025. Saatvik is a rising senior and Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar at Cornell University, where he is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in industrial and labor relations with a concentration in public policy. He originally hails from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Before joining NLIHC, Saatvik was a research intern at the National Zoning Atlas for almost two years, where he contributed to building a comprehensive, nationwide database of zoning and land use regulations. Additionally, Saatvik was also a summer intern at the University of Chicago’s Inclusive Economy Lab, where he provided research support for multiple social policy field experiments, including a universal basic income (UBI) pilot in Cook County. Prior to these research experiences, he interned at various levels of state and local government. All these experiences have made him extremely passionate about leveraging high-quality research to improve and inform public policy. This summer at NLIHC, he hopes to do just that, contributing to NLIHC’s work of collecting and using data to shape housing policy.