Work Experience
Advisor
June 2023 - Present
May 2023 - Present
Aug 2022 - Present
CITTA India (Jaisalmer, India)
Advisory Board Member
Building one of a kind school in the Thar Dessert where education and local culture & economy can strengthen each other
Recruiting and Mentoring of the fellows at the Gyaan Center, Jaisalmer
CoLab (Bengaluru, India)
Advisor
Mentoring the founding team to work towards education equity and creating a global community of educators
The 30 Minute – University of Planning (New York, USA)
Mentor (Remote)
Advising edtech organizations/individuals on building equitable and inclusive education products.
Job/Project(s)
Nov 2023 - Present
Indus Training and Research Institute (ITARI)
Faculty
Joined ITARI as a faculty for their flagship program: PG Diploma in Education (International).
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Training and working with pre-service and in-service teachers of IB and Cambridge boards.
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Mentoring teachers in creating innovative pedagogical experiences for students.
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Enhancing and building their research potential as teachers are the best repository of educational research
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Guiding them on their expert to educator pathway.
Dec 2020 - Oct 2023
Aug 2021 - Present
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
July 2022 - Aug 2022
Mar 2018 – Mar 2020
OpenCurriculum (California, USA)
Manager – Research and Strategy (Remote)
Working directly with the CEO to build two edtech products: curriculum and learning science
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Building accessible learning science research platform for pedagogical experimentation
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Interviewing with professors across the globe and teachers (USA) for creating the platform
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Brainstorming on adequate curriculum and instruction delivery tools for K12 education
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Extensive literature readings and reviews for research insights on K12 curriculum
Collegify (Gurgaon, India)
Consultant
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Advising students on developing research rigor and an eye for detail
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Helping students formulate research questions, undertake literature review, design and conduct research studies
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Trained 50+ high school students 1:1 on academic writing and building research papers
The Learning Agency (Washington DC, USA)
Consultant - Tools Competition (Remote)
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Official Reviewer for one of world’s largest edtech competitions (Total Prize: 4 million USD)
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Reviewed proposals of 160+ organizations from different countries across the globe
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Provided feedback on the measures of equity, learning engineering and scalability
Consultant (Remote)
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Researched 278 children’s stories from various countries (USA, Japan, China, Scotland, Sweden, Ireland, Norway, etc) for social bias
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The stories were reviewed on a rubric for social biases related to race, gender, ability, color, etc.
MentorAkin.in (New Delhi, India)
Founder
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Created a platform for bridging the gap between high school students and career experts.
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Collaborated with a charitable school; helped 50+ students access mentors in different fields
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Aug 2016 - June 2017
June 2012 - May 2013
Consultant
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Researched and created repository on different career opportunities for students of 8th to 12th grades.
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Counselled 25+ students on realizing their area of interest and higher education prospects.
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Guided students get admit into some of the top universities across the globe: Oxford, Columbia, LSE, etc.
Happy Minds (Mumbai, India)
Career Counselor and Employability Skills Trainer
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Provided employability skill training to 500+ graduate students of different colleges across Maharashtra.
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Career Guidance workshops for about 10K+ high school students in rural schools of Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka.
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Conducted 1:1 counselling sessions for students from 8th to 12th grade.
Tata Consultancy Services (New Delhi, India)
Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee
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Worked with multiple computer languages: Java, J2EE, Javascript, CSS, SQL, etc.
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Worked with the SME Team – planned and conducted national level exams in different parts of the country