Professional Experience:
My tryst with the development sector began when I began working with Pratham Education Foundation - a stint that lasted for almost seven years, where I helped them write Annual Reports, knowledge pieces & press releases and, manage their social media platforms on the one hand, and gather human-centric impact stories from the field and presenting their impact to various stakeholders. I was also involved in one of the significant studies involving qualitative impact analysis of a few model villages across the country. Titled Hamara Gaon, my role involved documenting challenges in improving children's learning levels through interviews and group discussions with community members. Additionally, I also got an opportunity to undertake qualitative impact analysis in challenging geographies like Bastar and Nandurbar, and these insights helped Pratham introspect on challenges in improving the learning levels of children.
I could also explore Pratham's youth-skilling verticals through a similar lens, yielding one of the most amazing and impactful community-led stories – A village of female electricians – which remains a milestone moment of my development sector career.
While Pratham trained me in exploring and presenting social impact and qualitative analysis in primary education and youth skilling, I could also use this approach during my stint with UNICEF Maharashtra in nutrition, health and livelihoods. My stint with UNICEF coincided with the coronavirus pandemic, where I could write reports, transcribe and translate documents concerning the government of Maharashtra and UNICEF, script videos and, more importantly, document stories across Maharashtra emphasizing how the pandemic had led to a drastic loss of income, which in turn affected spending on nutritious food and led to malnutrition. I was also part of creating communication material to encourage healthy food, build immunity, and encourage mothers to continue breastfeeding. During the pandemic's later stages, I developed communication material to generate awareness and behaviour change concerning vaccination.
These experiences culminated in my one-year consulting stint with the Government of Maharashtra's Department of Disaster Management, where I helped them prepare an annual communications plan worth Rs 38 crores, which focused on creating communication material to achieve social and behaviour change across the state concerning disaster preparedness. Apart from documenting field visits, sharing press releases, and supervising video production, I was honoured to publish two case studies for the Government of Maharashtra in Disaster Governance in India, a reputed magazine in the governance ecosystem.
Currently based in Delhi and working for the American India Foundation, my profile is a culmination of communications and qualitative research analysis leading to social impact analysis. My role includes writing knowledge pieces, gathering social media management content, and publishing reports and coffee table books. Through my future career aspirations, I wish to continue showcasing social impact through meaningful storytelling.
My updated CV reflects my career trajectory and a few writing samples associated with every professional assignment.