MPP CandidateUniversity of Oxford
I was brought up in India, where firsthand experience of educational inequality inspired me to work towards creating an equitable learning environment for children. To understand the challenges in the education system, I joined the Teach for India fellowship, where I taught at a government school in Delhi. Leveraging this grassroots experience and wanting to work at scale, I joined the International Innovation Corps (IIC), a programme run by the University of Chicago in India which sends top talent to work with governments. As a project lead at the IIC, I worked on governance reform, community engagement and school transformation with the Department of Education in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Post-IIC, I moved to the World Bank, where I worked on interventions that helped improve the quality of early childhood education services in India. I believe that transforming government systems through decentralised management and participatory development can solve the learning crisis in the world.