In 2013, while in graduate school, Dr. Goswami interned at the Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Management in Kolkata, evaluating the nutrient recovery mechanisms of the East Kolkata Wetlands Ecosystem. In 2014, she held a summer internship at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Project Trainee at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, analyzing pharmaceutical residue in wastewater. She worked for CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute from 2014 to 2015 as a Project Assistant before starting her doctorate. In the role, she developed a plan for the Erai-Zarpat region of Maharashtra, India, for river basin management and water body rejuvenation.

In 2015, Dr. Goswami began working at Rutgers University as a graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant, with positions she held throughout her program. She helped plan lessons, taught class sections, and designed lab experiments for subjects including the Planet Earth Lab, Environmental Geology Lab, Soil Science, and Environmental Geochemistry. As a research assistant, she worked on research related to metal interactions with phosphate in engineering wastewater systems and urban soils, where she produced publications and presented at conferences.

Dr. Goswami worked as a Legislative Fellow for a year in 2019 and 2020 at the U.S. House of Representatives in former Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii’s office as a NOAA Knauss Science Policy Fellow. As a fellow, she briefed the congresswoman on all legislative items using memos, fact sheets, policy briefs, and statements. She also followed house floor debates and relevant bills to help provide vote recommendations and facilitated appropriations requests from stakeholders.

In 2020, she returned to Rutgers University as a Research Assistant and Co-Adjutant at the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity Culture and the Modern Experience, researching preparedness planning and resiliency tools to help cities make informed decisions. She also helped design the curriculum for “Our Climate Crisis,” which she helped facilitate. In 2021, Dr. Goswami was selected as a NYC Panel on Climate Change Fellow in the NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency.

She joined the Center for Food Safety as a Scientist in 2021, where she drafted comments on proposed decisions by government agencies, assisted attorneys in litigation, partnered with organizations to address farmworker health and justice, provided scientific assistance in policymaking, and translated scientific research to various audiences.

In 2022, Dr. Goswami become an Interdisciplinary Scientist with the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She researches the practice and policies of U.S. agriculture, contaminants, and nutrient cycles and their impacts on natural resources and human health. Dr. Goswami draws on the U.S. Policy experience she gained while a Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Congress to support her work.

Dr. Goswami notes the challenges in pursuing an environment career working at the intersection of policy and science, stating, “The work that we do is challenging day in and day out” (2023). However, she highlights that all wins are celebrated, big or small, because they are “far and few and very hard earned” (2023). She emphasizes that each accomplishment in her career does not exist in isolation and is instead a win for the collective. Dr. Goswami is proud to be invited to be a reviewer on the USDA grants panel, as it helped create opportunities for disadvantaged and underserved farmers, positively impacting the country. While serving on the panel felt like any other panel, once the grants were announced, she understood their positive impact on communities and her role in helping serve them.