16th and 17th November, 2024
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Celebrating 15 Years of Collective Action Towards Ed-Equity
Students as Nation Builders
This session will explore the role students perceive for themselves as active contributors to nation-building and how they are empowered to engage as responsible citizens. A key focus will be on the support and mentorship they received from their didis and bhaiyas, which enables them to realize their potential and take meaningful action. Alumni participants will leave the session with insights on how they can adopt similar approaches in their own practices when working with students, fostering leadership and responsibility towards the country.
Venue: Library
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Sanaya Bharucha
Sanaya is the Global Head, Student Leadership and Voice at Teach For All. She supports organizations to grow students into compelling advocates for change. Through her work at Teach For All, and the 8.5 years she has spent at Teach For India in diverse leadership roles since 2009, she has gained a deep insight both into the inequities faced by children from underprivileged backgrounds, as well as the immense potential that resides within each person - child or adult.
Roopa Purushothaman
Roopa Purushothaman is the chief economist and head of policy advocacy at Tata Sons. In her role, Ms Purushothaman drives macro-economic research as well as all policy and advocacy initiatives of the Tata group. Prior to Tata sons, Ms Purushothaman was associated with Everstone Capital, where she was leading the research function. Before that, she was with Goldman Sachs International as vice president and global economist. In her longstanding career, Ms Purushothaman has published research papers covering a wide range of topics, including the path-breaking research on BRIC countries. Ms Purushothaman is a graduate from Yale University, and has a post-graduate degree from the London School of Economics. She is also the founder of Avasara Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational institution focusing on accelerating academic and leadership outcomes for high potential adolescent girls in India.