Every child deserves to live in an India free of poverty and filled with love. We believe our education system is the fastest, most effective path to this India. At Teach For India, we are building a movement of leaders working together at all levels of the system to provide an excellent education to all of India’s children.
Teach For India was founded in 2008. We worked with McKinsey & Company to craft a unique blueprint rooted in the belief that all children in India must attain an excellent education, which became the building blocks of the Teach For India movement.
2009 - 2012
DREAM. LAUNCH. JUMP IN.
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- 2009: Our Mumbai and Pune sites launch.
- 2011: Our Delhi site launches, and we welcome our first cohort of Fellows to the Alumni movement.
- 2012: Our Chennai and Hyderabad sites launch, the InspirED Conference sparks dialogue in education
In 4 years, we went from 87 Fellows to 700, our Staff grew from 8 members to a team of 150, and we became one of the largest non-profit recruiters in India.
- 2013: Our Broadway-inspired Maya Musical sets a new bar.
- 2014: Redrawing India, the first book about us, is published - marking 5 years of TFI.
- 2014: Our Ahmedabad site launches.
- 2015: Our Bengaluru site launches..
- 2016: InnovatEd launches to support early-stage Alumni education entrepreneurs.
- 2016: Firki, our teacher education platform, launches.
We started to define what really matters most to us. We questioned what it would take for us to actually transform the education landscape in India. Teach For India turned 5, our first batch of students graduated from school, and the picture of an India free of poverty and filled with love started to take shape.
2013 - 2016
LEARNING. LOVE. IMPACT.
2017 - 2022
PARTNERSHIP. ADVOCACY. REINVENTION.
- 2017: TFIx launches to support education entrepreneurs across India.
- 2018: The Kids Education Revolution launches to reimagine education in partnership with children.
- 2019: Grey Sunshine, the second book about us, is published.
- 2019: The Greatest Show on Earth - a musical on the status of India's education is staged.
- 2020: Community support through Covid including ration and device distributions.
- 2021 - Our Kolkata site launches.
- 2021 - Our campaign to re-open schools picks up momentum, and our Students return to schools.
This was the phase of challenge, hope, reinvention, and of the power of community. Teach For India turned 10, and we began to see the ripple effects of our Alumni movement. The pandemic and school shutdown compelled us to innovate, and we began to reimagine and redefine what learning can look like.
- 2022 - The India & Studies launch to bring our Constitutional Values to life in our classrooms.
- 2023 - Our Hamilton-inspired Conference of the Birds musical explores the idea of India.
- 2023 - Our Alumni movement crosses the 5000 mark.
- 2024 - Our bold Lead with Love Recruitment campaign launches, and we have over 50 Student Alumni in the Fellowship.
- 2024 - Teach For India turns 15.
As we entered Phase 4, we thought about our bold vision and North Star, what it would take to get us there, and the ways in which our collective was starting to shift the needle.
This is our decade of possibility.
This is our decade of possibility.
2022 onwards:
COLLECTIVE. CHANGE. INDIA.
Beyond the Fellowship, our Alumni continue to further the cause of educational equity as leaders in our prioritised pathways:
Policy and Governance:
They work on policy and governance issues, supporting governments directly on large-scale systemic reforms in education.
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Transformational Schools:
They choose to be teachers, teacher trainers and leaders in schools or community centres.
Enablers of Transformational Schools:
They support schools through curriculum, assessment reform, large-scale teacher training, and ed tech.
Together, our Alumni model builds collective leadership, sparks innovation, and creates the conditions for systemic impact that unfolds over time.
We deeply believe that systems need leadership that is transformational.
We believe that the purpose of education must expand to unleash the potential of Self, Other, and India.
We believe that our children must be physically, emotionally, and mentally safe, in order to thrive.
We believe that our children are our partners in this work.
We're building a movement of education and social impact leaders who can do more, faster and deeper, to change the system. Therefore, our core values are guiding principles that shape not just who we are, but what we do, and how we do it. They are values that shape, and are shaped by, our community.
Teach For India is led by a team of dynamic leaders from across the country, who bring experience and perspective from all levels of the sector - from working at the grassroots to driving systemic change.
Shaheen Mistri
Founder and CEO
Alpana Mallick
Senior Director, Regions
Anuradha Rao
Senior Director, Impact & Operations
Ashwath Bharath
Senior Director, Movement Building
Revathi Ramanan
Senior Director, Regions
Tanya Arora
Senior Director, People
Aarushi Sharma
City Director, Delhi
Anna Maria
Director, Strategy & Impact
Aloma Rego
Director, Careers
Ankit Agrawal
City Director, Hyderabad
Caroline Paul
City Director, Mumbai
Deepika Guleria
City Director, Pune
Elizabeth Samuel
Director, Firki
Francis Vidhayathil
CFO
Gaurav Dutt
City Director, Kolkata
Hitesh Rawtani
Director, Technology
Kritika Rawat
Director, Kids Education Revolution
Nalika Braganza
Program Director
Prabhakaran Karunamoorthi
City Director, Chennai
Riddhi Samarth
Chief of Staff
Ramabhadran Sundaram
Director, National Alumni Impact
Rahat Lokhandwala
City Director, Bengaluru
Shreyas Vatsa
Director, Selection
Shruti Parikh
Director, Human Resources
Swetha Balakrishnan
Director, Fellowship Recruitment
Sara Khan
Director, Development
Vrinda Baheti
Director, TFIx
Yatharth Verma
City Director, Ahmedabad
Teach For India is led by a team of dynamic leaders from across the country, who bring experience and perspective from all levels of the sector - from working at the grassroots to driving systemic change.
Nisaba Godrej
Executive Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL)
Board Member, Godrej Industries, Godrej Agrovet, and Mahindra and Mahindra
Arnavaz (Anu) Agha
Former Chairperson,
Thermax Limited
Nominated Member of
Rajya Sabha (2012-18)
Meher Pudumjee
Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Neel Shahani
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Former Banker, J.P.Morgan and Barclays
Ex-Lead Sales Trading at CLSA and IIFL
Ramesh Srinivasan
Senior Partner, McKinsey &
Company, Inc. United States
Pramath Raj Sinha
Founder and MD,
Harappa Education
Founding Dean & Executive
Board, ISB
Founder & Trustee, Ashoka University (Young India Fellowship)
Founder, 9.9 Group
Former CEO, Ananda Bazar Patrika Group
Former Partner at McKinsey & Company
Tara Singh Vachani
Executive Chairperson, Antara Senior Care
Vice-Chairperson, Max India Limited
Managing Trustee, Max India Foundation
Governing Council Member, The Vedica Scholars Program for Women
Mentor for KARM Fellowship
Nandita Dugar
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Formerly, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Unilever, and HDFC Bank
Shaheen Mistri
Founder and CEO,
Teach For India
Founder and Board Member,
The Akanksha Foundation
Advisory Board Member,
Museum of Solutions, The Circle, and Lighthouse Studios
We are supported by a team of advisors who bring diverse perspectives, strategic insights, and professional experiences.
Deepak Satwalekar
Former Managing Director, HDFC Ltd
Former Managing Director and CEO, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd
Consultant, World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, USAID and UN HABITAT
Advisory Council, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Prateek Kanwal
Director, Deloitte
Co-Founder, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Teach For India Alumnus
Sairaj Sagaram
Teach For India Student Alum
Soumya Jain
Founder and CEO, iTeach Schools
Teach For India Alumnus
Sandeep Rai
Founder and CEO, The Circle
Corps Member, Teach For America
Board Member, iTeach Schools, Saturday Art Class
Author, ‘Grey Sunshine: Stories from Teach For India’
Supriya Kumar
Teach For India Student Alum
Wendy Kopp
Co-Founder & CEO, Teach For All
Our regions are supported by a network of regional champions, who advocate for, and boost local partnerships in each of our cities.
Bangalore Regional Board
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Pavithra
Vaijayanti
Arati Gupta
Pranab Barua
Nikhil Barua
Phyllis Savage
Eric Savage
Ananda Dutta
Vaijayanti
Arati Gupta
Pranab Barua
Nikhil Barua
Phyllis Savage
Eric Savage
Ananda Dutta
Chennai Regional Board
Rajiv Lochan
Chitra Ravi
PR Ganapathy
Rinku Suri-Mecheri
Vedika Agarwal
Vijay S
Chitra Ravi
PR Ganapathy
Rinku Suri-Mecheri
Vedika Agarwal
Vijay S
Delhi Regional Boarad
Tara Vachani
Aakanksha Gulati
Anu Prasad
Amitav Virmani
Mansi Joshi
Radhika Bharatram
James Abraham
Aditya Ghosh
Aakanksha Gulati
Anu Prasad
Amitav Virmani
Mansi Joshi
Radhika Bharatram
James Abraham
Aditya Ghosh
Hyderabad Regional Board
Tara Vachani
Aakanksha Gulati
Anu Prasad
Amitav Virmani
Mansi Joshi
Radhika Bharatram
James Abraham
Aditya Ghosh
Aakanksha Gulati
Anu Prasad
Amitav Virmani
Mansi Joshi
Radhika Bharatram
James Abraham
Aditya Ghosh
Kolkata Regional Board
Shivika Goenka
Prasenjit Guha
Neerza Jhunjhunwala
Prasenjit Guha
Neerza Jhunjhunwala
Mumbai Working Committee
Pune Regional Board
Meher Pudumjee
Anshoo Gaur
Pradeep Bhargava
Joseph Cubas
Raj Gilda
Rati Forbes
Robin Kumar
Anshoo Gaur
Pradeep Bhargava
Joseph Cubas
Raj Gilda
Rati Forbes
Robin Kumar
Teach For India is a part of the Teach For All Network, a growing group of independent organisations working on expanding educational opportunities in their nations. The 64 countries in the network today share a common vision of an excellent education for all children. Teach For India shares a symbiotic relationship with the network, offering thought-partnership on key ideas and projects, shaping our collective philosophy on leadership rooted in love, student partnership, and the idea of collective action.
