Ms. Srivastava is a Political Science Honors Graduate from Patna Women's college. She was employed as Development Executive and Documentation officer with the Swiss Red Cross Programme Coaching Unit [SRC-PCU], Patna, India from June 1999 till January 2002. She is Member Steering Committee on Women & Child Development for Planning Commission of India (2007-2012). She has been appointed Governing Body Member of State Resource Center (DIPAYATAN) Bihar. She has recently been appointed as the Convener of ‘Panchayat Mahila Shakti Abhiyan’ (Ministry of Panchayati Raj Bihar). She is also a Core Group Member of the fact finding team for The Hunger Project to document the atrocities committed upon the women Panchayat candidates or their family members during election. She is a Core Committee Member of Women Empowerment Cell (Constituted by District Administration for empowerment of women). Besides this she is also a Member of Women Power Connect (An alliance of women's organizations, non governmental organizations and individuals working with a special focus on women, girl children and under privileged). She has also worked as the State Point Person Bihar for the Leadership for Result Programme (L4R) of UNDP-TAHA in collaboration with HIV & Human Development Resource Network (HDRN). She has earlier worked as an Assistant Supervisor in the Access Services, Olin and Uris Library, Cornell University, an Ivy League University in United States of America from July 1996 to August 1998. She worked as a television News Caster with the Patna Doordarshan and News broadcaster with All India Radio from 1993 till 2001.

She has over 10 publications in different newspapers and journals which include ‘Denial of existence'- a case study on the plight of ‘musahar' women in the most backward areas of Bihar. She presented a paper on the plight of Musahar women in Bihar titled ‘Denial of Existence' at a regional conference organised by Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) at Kolkata. Her other works on ‘Indecent Portrayal of Women in Media', ‘Life in hell' – on the spot study on the plight of sex workers in Chaturbhujsthan – Bihar's biggest red light area, ‘Witchunt'- based on witchcraft killings in Bihar and Jharkhand- published in leading British magazine ‘Women's Journal' and ‘The reel and the real woman- the role of law and media in projecting women'- published in THE HOOT a south Asian electronic journal. Her paper on ‘An ethnographic study on women in prostitution in Bihar' was presented and published at Forum 9 ( Bombay) Global Forum for Health Research (September 12-September 16 2005)

Her paper titled ‘The Bad Karma' was presented at society for working life's IVth International Congress Secretariat held at New Delhi (27 th November – 30 th November 2005). The ‘Missing Women' among the ‘survivors': Where are they? Was accepted for a poster presentation at the conference “Research on Workplace Health & Safety: From the Core to the Margins”, an international conference of Safety Net and the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (June 7-10, 2006 at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada). She was invited to present a paper during the scientific meetings of Research Committee 32, Women in Society (WISISA), to be held for the XVI International Sociological Association World Congress in Durban South Africa, (July 23 through 29 of 2006). The theme for RC 32 is The Quality of Social Existence and Resistance in a Globalization World. “Women in Panchayati Raj- Gandhi's dream of Feminising Politics” will be presented in the session on Gender and Public Sociology and has been accepted for future publication. She was also invited to present a paper on Women in the history of Eastern India at Indian Association for Women Studies Calcutta.