Nationality Indian Role Social activist Name Shaheen Mistri | Religion Parsi | |
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Board member of UmmeedLatika Roy FoundationThermax Social Initiatives Foundation Organizations founded Teach For India, Akanksha Foundation Books Redrawing India: The Teach For India Story Similar People Kovid Gupta, Anu Aga, Wendy Kopp, Zia Mody, Naina Lal Kidwai | ||
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Shaheen Mistri (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian social activist and educator. She is a founder of the Akanksha Foundation, an Indian educational initiative in Mumbai and Pune, and is also the CEO of Teach For India since 2008.
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- Teach for india ceo shaheen mistri at tedxasb
- Shaheen mistri ceo of teach for india founder of akanksha foundation
- Early life
- Career
- Board memberships
- Published works
- Awards
- References
Shaheen mistri ceo of teach for india founder of akanksha foundation
Early life
Shaheen Mistri was born in Mumbai, India in a Parsi family. She had an international upbringing and grew up in various countries, including Lebanon, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the United States as she moved countries with her father, a senior banker with Citigroup. After attending boarding school in Connecticut, she moved to India for higher education. She graduated with a BA degree in Sociology from St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai and later obtained a Masters in Education from the University of Manchester. Before launching the Akanksha Foundation, Shaheen's interest in children's education led her to volunteer as a teacher in diverse organizations in Mumbai, such as the Happy Home and School for the Blind and the E.A.R. school for the Hearing Impaired.
Career
Shaheen Mistri, as a young college student, walked into the Mumbai slums and expressed her desire to teach the less privileged children who roamed the streets. To fulfill this goal, she founded the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit organisation working primarily in education, at the age of 20 to impact the lives of such children. Over a period of 20 years, her Akanksha Foundation, which started with just 15 children in one centre, now teaches 3,500 children in 58 centres and six schools. In the summer of 2008, she took on a leadership role at Teach For India which enlists India's most promising college graduates and young professionals to spend two years teaching in low-income schools and attempt to bridge the educational gap in the country.
Board memberships
Shaheen also sits on the boards of Ummeed, and the Thermax Social Initiatives Foundation and is an advisor to the Latika Roy Foundation.