Dolma Choden Roder is a Professor of Anthropology at Royal Thimphu College, where she teaches undergraduate students. She earned her PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Arizona State University. She is also involved with Riyang Books, a family-run publishing house based in Thimphu. In this role, she has edited a collection of Bhutanese poetry and a book documenting her ancestral home in Ogyen Choling, Bumthang.