[15] Arora is a member of several boards and advisory committees, including Facebook's Social Science One and ICRIER Prosus Centre for Internet and Digital Economy.

[19] Arora writes extensively about the impact of new digital technologies in the Global South, with a special focus on India, Brazil, Namibia, and Bangladesh where she conducted substantive fieldwork.

Her work has been featured in international media outlets including the Het Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands),[20] The Economist (UK),[21] Quartz (USA),[22] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany),[23] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,[24] De Standaard (Belgium),[25] and Times of India.

In 2020 she wrote an op-ed for NRC Handelsblad critiquing the viral essay by Rutger Bregman on "The real lord of the flies"[29] by arguing that it was a typical white savior focused story, and not representative of the historical colonial context.

[30] She was an early contributor to the Ideas section for the award-winning[31] global media outlet Rest of World, with the opinion piece "AI isn’t going to save us.