[4] Damerla was born in a Telugu-speaking family in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh (present day Telangana), India.

[13] In the 2018 provincial election, Damerla was defeated in Mississauga East—Cooksville by Progressive Conservative candidate Kaleed Rasheed by a margin of 4739 votes.

[14][15] Damerla was an early endorser of Steven Del Duca's 2019-20 leadership bid, co-hosting his campaign's first event targeting former Queen's Park staffers with fellow former MPP Han Dong.

She contested her former provincial seat again in 2022, closing the gap from 11% to 3.5% (1206 votes margin) but losing again to Rasheed, by then a cabinet minister.

Damerla was one of the four sitting councillors who contested the 2024 mayoral byelection to replace Bonnie Crombie, who resigned after being elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in December 2023.

Despite polls showing her as a close challenging to frontrunner and eventual winner Carolyn Parrish, Darmerla finished third with 19% behind fellow councillor Alvin Tedjo.