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Amar Dongre
Admin Associate |
Ami Momaya
Fellow, SEL Programmes |
Apoorva Kumari
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
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Harshita Saraogi
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
Khushboo Kushwaha
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
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Lekha Menon
Founding Social Worker, Khoj |
Mala Naidu,
Helper, Khoj |
Nayana Kale
Language Teacher, Khoj |
Nidhi Singh
School Counsellor, Khoj |
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Nilofer Khan
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
Nima Gaikwad
School Counsellor, Khoj |
Niranjan Ramasundaram
SEL-aligned Academics Curriculum Projects |
Parul Mishra
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
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Pooja Raghuvanshi
Class Teacher, Khoj |
Prashant Waglode
SEL Facilitator, SEL Programmes |
Priya Gupta
Communications Executive |
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Radhika Kanojiya
Class Teacher, Khoj |
Raj Mayekar
Fellow |
Raj Talekar
Physical Education Teacher, Khoj |
Rajeshwari Counder
SEL Facilitator, SEL Programmes |
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Rashmi Shinde
Class Teacher, Khoj |
Sadhna Giri
Teaching Intern, Khoj |
Sadiya Shaikh
Class Teacher, Khoj |
Shabina Shaikh
Programme Coordinator, SEL Programmes |
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Vrinda Ahuja
SEL Facilitator, SEL Programmes |
Rishabh Lalani is an independent fundraising strategist with ~11 years of experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. In the last 7 years, he has consulted with family offices, corporate foundations, business incubators, and civil society groups to raise close to USD 6 million for philanthropic funding for a variety of causes. Most recently, he volunteered to raise funds for 54 causes across India for Covid-19 relief raising nearly USD 720k in a short span of 6 months. He holds a masters degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.
Amrita Nair
With degrees in Psychology and Social Entrepreneurship, Amrita co-founded Apni Shala, where she champions inclusive education and well-being initiatives. Her work includes DEI training, counseling, and Theatre of the Oppressed facilitation. A former WIPRO Seeding Fellow and trained DEI facilitator, she has developed policies to enhance employee well-being across identities. Currently, she consults with Adhyayan Quality Education Services.
With degrees in Psychology and Social Entrepreneurship, Amrita co-founded Apni Shala, where she champions inclusive education and well-being initiatives. Her work includes DEI training, counseling, and Theatre of the Oppressed facilitation. A former WIPRO Seeding Fellow and trained DEI facilitator, she has developed policies to enhance employee well-being across identities. Currently, she consults with Adhyayan Quality Education Services.
Anand Nair is an Advisor for Apni Shala’s Branding and Communications. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at 4AM Worldwide - a multidisciplinary creative communications firm with a presence in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and New Delhi.
Anukriti Goyal is a co-founder of Apni Shala. Her work in the past decade has cut across thematic areas of grassroots development. She believes in the power of connections and analogies across sectors. You will often find her connecting dots, resources, and people. Anukriti has a bachelor's degree in Polymer Sciences and a master's degree in Social Entrepreneurship.
Fiona Reyonolds is the Deputy Head of School at the American School of Bombay. Prior to this, she was an administrator in both the American School of Bombay and Graded School in Sao Paulo and has been an international educator for 23 years, working in Brazil, India, the Ivory Coast, Mexico, and Poland. Her current focus is strategic planning, implementation, and leveraging the expertise of teachers to develop small- and large-scale change. Fiona has presented at a variety of conferences on organizing schools for change, creating developmentally appropriate middle schools, using learning spaces/environment to support learning, professional growth and evaluation, the future landscape for children and why schools have to change, differentiation, and setting a vision and strategic planning.
Kavita Anand is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Adhyayan. Through her work, she is catalysing a committed learning community of educators across India, to transform the learning of students. For more than three decades as an educator, researcher, funder, school and system leader, and now edupreneur, she has worked towards ensuring ‘a good school for every child’. She was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2015 for her social entrepreneurship and single-minded focus on bringing quality to schools through leadership development. Over her career spanning 30 years, she has worked in organizations such as Aga Khan Education Services and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust. She has provided long-term consultancy services programmes of the Open University, UK and the National College of Teaching and Leadership, UK.
Rahul Gupta is the Founder of Rajalka Consulting. He has worked as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) with The Akanksha Foundation. He has specialised in Ed. Leadership, Program Strategy, People Development and school transformation initiatives. As a Consulting School Coach for Khoj, he advises the leadership on school leadership, results framework and student learning outcome.
Swetha Ranganathan is a co-founder of Apni Shala. Over the past decade she has worked in the space of education, mental health, theatre, and the arts in India and Canada. She enjoys putting together organizational processes and structures to support the complex community engagement programming that non-profits do. Swetha has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Social Entrepreneurship and is a trained Theatre of the Oppressed facilitator.
Kelli Meeker is the High School IB Coordinator and Learning Leader at the International School of Zug and Lucern. Previously, she was living in Mumbai, India where she served as the Teaching and Learning Coordinator at the American School of Bombay. In 2010 she left her position as a school Literacy Coach and Reading Specialist in Northern California to work internationally. Her first position was as a classroom teacher at Graded, the American School of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. She believes deeply in the potential of creating student-centered learning environments, the responsibility of schools to build equitable and inclusive spaces for learners, and that social and emotional learning and wellness are equally as important as cognitive learning - for all community members.
