Sakuko Sugawara is independent researcher, interested in the interdisciplinary fields of gender and mobility studies. Upon spending her final year researching the relation between menstruation and commuting in Tokyo, she has graduated from Yale-NUS College with a Bachelor’s degree in urban studies. Her research interests have been shaped by her own experiences navigating the city as a woman. She believes that it is imperative to deconstruct the assumption that the imagined users of the city are cisgender, able-bodied men and to take into consideration how certain other populations may experience the urban environment differently. Sakuko plans to continue her research on gendered exclusions in the built environment during her postgraduate studies.