Prior to IDinsight, Chetna was an Anantya Zamir Fellow with Vishwa Vatsalya Manav Sewa Trust, a grassroots NGO based in the Amreli District of Gujarat. She has also worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Lead at TARA Foundation and as a Development Apprentice in PRADAN. Chetna has a Postgraduate Diploma in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University and is a graduate in Statistics from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.