Raman attended Framingham High School in Framingham, Massachusetts.[4] She started her college career at Tufts University in 1992 and joined the basketball team as a walk-on.[5] Raman played off the bench as a guard until she was sidelined with a broken leg after she was hit by a car in her junior year.[3][5] Raman began to develop her coaching abilities during her playing absence while encouraging her teammates and studying basketball.[5] She served as team co-captain during her senior season. Raman graduated from Tufts University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and went on to receive a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 2001.[6]
Raman began her intercollegiate coaching career with a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Tufts.[9]
On July 9, 2008, Raman was named head coach of the MIT Engineers women's basketball team after serving as an assistant coach at Wellesley College for the previous six years.[10] Raman was named New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Basketball Coach of the Year in 2016 and 2017.[9][11]
On September 11, 2020, the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced Raman was hired as an assistant coach.[9] She became the first Indian-American woman and the 14th woman to be named as an NBA coach.[9] Raman had developed a relationship with Rich Cho, the Grizzlies' vice president of basketball strategy, who she first encountered when Cho was looking for student intern recommendations.[3] Grizzlies head coach, Taylor Jenkins, was "blown away" by Raman and had no qualms in hiring her despite her relative unknown status.[3] Raman works in scouting, player development and analytics for the Grizzlies.[3]