[1][2][3] She is also a visiting faculty member at National Centre for Biological Sciences and has received the Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.
Prerna holds a Masters in Labour Welfare from Gujarat University and has done graduate work in Economics at St Xaviers (Ahmedabad).
Later she worked on daily newspapers The Asian Age, The Pioneer, The Times of India and others.
Prerna took to concentrating on working with governments at the local, regional and federal levels, to conserve India's wildlife and wild habitats through policy and legal reform, the promotion of education and awareness, and by supporting effective action on the ground.
[6][7] She is the editor of Tigerlink, a journal which collates and analyses information about tigers from across their range countries.