About Teach For India
Teach For India was founded in 2008. Inspired by Teach For America’s journey, we worked with McKinsey & Company to craft a blueprint around the belief that all children must attain an excellent education.
History
2009-2013: Building Momentum
2009 Mumbai and Pune sites launch.
2011 Delhi site launches, Alumni movement starts.
2012 Chennai and Hyderabad sites launch,
InspirED Conference sparks dialogue in education.
Our Students move from elementary to secondary school, and our first Students graduate.
2013-2017: Deepening Impact
2013 Broadway-inspired Maya Musical sets a new bar.
2014 Redrawing India, the first book about us, published.
2014 Ahmedabad site launches.
2015 Bengaluru site launches.
2016 InnovatEd launches to support early-stage Alumni education entrepreneurs,
Firki, our teacher education platform, launches.
2017-2022: Balancing Depth, Scale And Innovation
2017 TFIx launches to support education entrepreneurs across India who serve children in need.
2018 The Kids Education Revolution launches to reimagine education in partnership with children.
2019 Grey Sunshine, the second book about us, published,
The Greatest Show on Earth - a musical on the status of India's education staged.
2020 Community support through Covid including ration and device distributions.
2021 Kolkata site launches,
Campaign to re-open schools,
Our Students return to schools.
2024 TFI turns 15.
Today, we are a movement of 1000 Fellows teaching 33,500 children and 5,500+ Alumni who are collectively reaching 50 million children across India.
People
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Teach For India is a Teach To Lead project governed by a committed Board of Trustees.
Teach To Lead Trustees
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Nisaba Godrej
Executive Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL)
Arnavaz (Anu) Agha
Former Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Nominated Member of Rajya Sabha (2012-18)
Meher Pudumjee
Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Nandita Dugar
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Former Interim-CEO of Akanksha Foundation
Formerly, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Unilever, and HDFC Bank
Neel Shahani
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Former Banker, J.P.Morgan and Barclays
Ex-Lead Sales Trading at CLSA and IIFL
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
Ramesh Srinivasan
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States
Shaheen Mistri
CEO, Teach For India
Founder and Board Member, The Akanksha Foundation
Advisory Board Member, Museum of Solutions and The Circle
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
National Advisory Board
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, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT).
Advisory Council, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore,
Chaired/Member of several industries, Governments and Reserve Bank of India expert groups
Prateek Kanwal
Director, Deloitte
Co-Founder, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Teach For India Alumnus
Sandeep Rai
Founder, The Circle
Corps Member, ****Teach For America
Board Member, iTeach Schools, Saturday Art Class
Author, ‘Grey Sunshine, Stories from Teach For India’
Sairam Sagaram
Teach For India Student Alum
Soumya Jain
Founder and CEO, iTeach Schools
Teach For India Alumnus
Supriya Kumar
Teach For India Student Alum
Wendy Kopp
Co-Founder & CEO, Teach For All
Our Leadership Team
Shaheen Mistri
CEO
Aarushi Sharma
City Director, Delhi
Alpana Mallick
Senior Director, Regions
Ankit Agrawal
City Director, Hyderabad
Anna Maria
Director, Strategy & Impact
Anuradha Rao
Senior Director, Impact & Operations
Ashwath Bharath
Senior Director, Movement Building
Caroline Paul
City Director, Mumbai
Deepika Guleria
Director, Careers
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
Rahat Lokhandwala
City Director, Bengaluru
Ramabhadran Sundaram
Director, National Alumni Impact
Revathi Ramanan
Senior Director, Regions
Sara Khan
Director, Development
Shreyas Vatsa
Director, Selection
Shruti Parikh
Director, Human Resources
Sitara Menon
Director, Brand & Communications
Sumay Gupta
City Director, Pune
Swetha Balakrishnan
Director, Fellowship Recruitment
Tanya Arora
Senior Director, People
Vrinda Baheti
Director, TFIx
Regional Advisory Board Bengaluru
Anand Dutta
Partner, Nexus Venture Partners
Arati Menon Gupta
Government Advocacy, Solving sensitive CSA/CPP cases, expanding PPP
Eric Savage
Co-Founder & CEO, Unitus Capital
K Vaijayanti Kurukundi
Head Resource & Evaluation, Akshara Foundation
Pranab Barua
CEO, Madura Garments
Board Member, Nykaa and Aditya Birla
Pavithra K.L.
Associate Director, Dream a Dream
Regional Advisory Board Chennai
Rajiv Lochan
Managing Director & CEO at Sundaram Finance Limited
Vijay Srinivasan
Managing Director, MDMM Consultants
Vedika Agarwal
Founder, Yein Udaan
Rinku Mecheri
Founder, Chennai Volunteers
PR Ganapathy
Mentor to Entrepreneurs
Chitra Ravi
Founder & CEO, Chrysalis
Regional Advisory Board Delhi
Amitav Virmani(Chair)
Founder & CEO, The Education Alliance
Aakanksha Gulati
Director, ACT Grants
Aditya Ghosh
Founder, Homage
CoFounder, AkasaAir
Board Member, Fabindia, OYO, Greencell Mobility
Chairperson, Social Enterprises at SEWA
Former President, IndiGo
James Abraham
Founder & Chairman, Mynzo Carbon
Mansi Joshi
Global Lead, Learning Experiences, Teach For All
Radhika Bharat Ram
Joint Vice Chairperson, The Shri Ram Schools
Founder, KARM Fellowship for Young Indian Women
Tara Singh Vachani
Executive Chairman, Antara Senior Living
Non – Executive Director, Max India Limited
Regional Advisory Board Kolkata
Shivika Goenka
Founder, RP-Goenka International School
Prasenjit
Group COO, Hi Care Remedy
Neerza Jhunjhunwala
Special Educator
Priya Dugar
Consultant, The Circle India
2014 TFI Fellow
Regional Advisory Board Pune
Meher Pudumjee (Chair)
Chairperson, Thermax Limited.
Anshoo Gaur
Co-Founder & Group CEO, Ideas to Impacts
Joseph Cubas
Co-Founder and Head of School, Avasara Academy
Pradeep Bhargava
Ex-Managing Director, Cummins Generator Technologies India Ltd.
Raj Gilda
Co-Founder, Lend-A-Hand India
Rati Forbes
Director, Forbes Marshall Limited
Robin Kumar
Director, iTeach Schools
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 60 countries in the network today share a common vision of an excellent education for all children.
Theory of Change
Meaningful change happens when we cultivate a collective force of leaders. Driven by the vision of an India free of poverty and filled with love, our leaders choose education as the path to get there. Over the next decade, we aspire to build a movement of 50,000 leaders. They will work collectively, with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 children from low-income communities in and beyond our regions.
We Build Leaders
We find committed people for our two-year Fellowship. We place them in low-income or government schools where they work relentlessly to transform the lives of their students. We support them as they find careers within and beyond the education sector.
We Nurture A Movement Of Leaders
After the Fellowship, our Fellows have lifelong access to our Alumni movement. This close-knit, supportive community learns and acts together for educational equity.
Within Education
Our Alumni work to transform schools and communities, join or start organisations to support education and work within government.
Beyond Education
Our Alumni work in careers in research, law, media, government and business and find ways to continue to advocate for educational equity.
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.
Policy and Governance: They work on policy and governance issues, supporting governments directly on large-scale systemic reforms in education.
