Yash Sharma is a Lead Researcher at the Center for the Study of Organized Hate’s Violence, Extremism, and Radicalization Program (VERP). He focuses on political mobilization, electoral politics, and ethnoreligious nationalism in South Asia. Yash has earned degrees in international relations and comparative politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Delhi. His published work includes the study on youth mobilization in vigilante groups targeting inter-faith couples in India. His current projects include work on the rise of anti-gender ideology within ethnonationalist politics and a study of political attitudes among religious minorities living in majoritarian contexts.