Jyoti is a Chartered Civil Engineer with five years’ experience in the Rail Sector with Costain. Jyoti is a founding member of Costain’s LGBT+ & Allies Network, of which she is the Chair today. She has since become an industry role model for LGBT+ matters. She has given presentations to the workforce on being LGBT+ in construction, developed Costain’s Transitioning at Work guidance, participated in the Institution of Civil Engineers LGBT History Month campaigns, whilst supporting the ICE to march in Pride for the first time. She has recently spoken about her personal experiences of homophobia and transphobia on the Federation of Piling Specialists podcast, and represented being out as a lesbian in the civil engineering industry on the LGBT+ young careers platform: Pink News Futures.