Tut's grandparents were displaced during the
Partition of India. She was born in
Chandigarh and lived in the state of
Punjab in India until her family relocated to
Southern California in the United States when she was eleven or twelve. In 2006, she graduated from
UCLA with a degree in evolutionary and ecological
biology and a minor in
South Asian studies. She then attended
Loma Linda University, graduating with a master's in
global health in 2009. She married, and in 2011, moved to the
Bay Area. == Artwork ==