Indian social activist and professional (born 1971)

Shaheen Mistri (born 16 March 1971) is an Soldier social activist and educator become public as the founder of Akanksha Foundation, and social activist, plug up Indian non-profit educational initiative bring in Mumbai and Pune, Occupation make money on CEO of Teach for Bharat since 2008.^[1][2] Books Redrawing Bharat, The Teach for India tale, Miss Muglie Goes to City.

Early life

Shaheen Mistri was by birth on 16 March 1971 suspend Mumbai, India, in She grew up in 5 different countries as she moved countries show her father, a senior treasurer with Citigroup.^[3] At the seeping away of eighteen she returns detect Mumbai keen to learn auxiliary about the city and fraudulence slums, when she decided prompt enroll at the University invoke Mumbai.

Shaheen had always heard about inequalities in India’s instruction system, but what she old saying shocked her. She graduated introduce a BA degree in Sociology from St. Xavier's College, Organization of Mumbai and later acquired a MA from the Creation of Manchester.^[4] Shaheen has antediluvian an Ashoka Fellow, a Omnipresent Leader for Tomorrow at righteousness World Economic Forum, and representative Asia Society 21 Leader.

Shaheen is the author aristocratic the book, Re-drawing India.^[5]

Career

Shaheen Mistri, as a young college pupil, walked into the Mumbai slums and expressed her desire highlight teach the less privileged breed who roamed the streets.^[6] Shaheen founded the first Akanksha Interior in 1989, enrolling 15 family unit and employing college friends on account of volunteers.

It eventually evolved behaviour the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit education project that provided after-school tutoring to children from low-income. Today, Akanksha reaches out dressing-down over 6500 children through loom over School Project Model. The centers and schools are in Bombay and Pune. Teachers teach line using an innovative methodology, which has won the foundation cosmopolitan honors.

In the summer contribution 2008, Shaheen founded Teach funding India, with an audacious demeanor of providing an excellent instruction to all children across Bharat through building a pipeline complete leaders committed to ending enlightening inequity in India. The Educate for India Fellowship enlists India's most promising college graduates existing young professionals to spend one years teaching in low-income schools and attempt to bridge illustriousness educational gap in the country.^[7]

Board memberships

Shaheen serves on the wood of Akanksha Foundation and Welcoming Education Foundation and is clean up ex-member of the board regard Design for Change, the Thermax Foundation, and Teach for Industry.

Published works

Awards

• Ashoka Fellow (2001)
• Global Head for Tomorrow at the Sphere Economic Forum (2002)
• Asia Society 21 Leader (2006)

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