Sayali is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has Commerce degrees from Mumbai University (R A Podar College of Commerce & Economics).

She has previous experience in asset management, teaching financial economics to PG students and Artificial intelligence usage in finance and healthcare.

In her role at CMHLP, Sayali works on understanding financial matters that deeply concern mental health like insurance for mental illness, cash-transfers and their impact on mental health and various budget allocations for mental health at the national & state level.

She is proficient in German and loves to get lost in her thoughts after reading and climbing Pune tekdis (hills).