Arushi is a high school student from San Francisco bay area. She has been teaching English to rural students of Odisha since last two years.
Maria Goga
Advisor
Maria Goga has a PHD in education and an ICT expert.
Makena Naegele
US Director of Growth/Brand Strategy
Makena Naegele believes that education is the key to freedom: opportunities, career, quality of life, empowerment. It is a right that a lot of people in the United States take for granted, especially college students attending private universities. The digital education movement is scalable and trackable. It is the only way remote children of impoverished villages in developing countries will get access to a high quality education. She worked as a growth marketing intern at Burrow, an e-commerce startup in Manhattan for 8 months, where she launched their influencer platform, organized strategic partnerships, managed social media, and coordinated events. She is a sophomore student majoring in Finance at NYU Stern.
Rupesh Dash
Senior ESL Trainer
Rupesh is a mechanical engineer, working at Tata Consultancy Services. He helps at Shikhya in developing content for Beginner’s English.
Lea Gabay
Cheer leading at Senegal
Lea Gabay is a French-American ESL teacher who is currently teaching English in Senegal as part of a 10-month teaching fellowship. She is teaching English at a university called Universite Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis and is also providing teacher training workshops.
Rachel La Russo
Cheer leading at Guinea
Rachel is an American who being a part of American Peace Corps has been to Guinea in West Africa. She has been helping in implementing Shikhya with help of a motivated local team.
Ritik Patnaik
Maker education curriculum Developer
Ritik is a high school student in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He has been a spoken English volunteer for the last year and is developing a maker education curriculum for rural students
Sushant Mahapatra
Co-Founder, CAO
Sushant is a mechanical engineer, teacher and social entrepreneur. He has translated over 700 math videos retaining the spirit of the original Khan Academy content but with analogies and examples taken from local text books. He believes with the aid of some technology and intelligent content, many students stand a chance to receive world class education that would fire their imagination and empower them.