Mantra4Change
Ashtami Rajan currently serves as the Program Head at Mantra4Change and previously held multiple roles at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, including Research Fellow. Ashtami has extensive experience in curriculum development and educational content creation, having worked as a Senior Curriculum Manager, Subject Matter Expert, and Consultant Author at various organizations, including LEAD School and SHAKTISHI. Other notable positions include content authoring at XSEED Education and teaching roles, including Senior Secondary Teacher at Delhi Public School Rajnagar. Ashtami Rajan holds an MPhil in Education from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a B.El.Ed from Delhi University, along with a Master's in Political Science from Indira Gandhi National Open University.
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Mantra4Change
Nearly a decade ago, Mantra stepped into the education ecosystem with a vision to transform Public Education in India. In a nation like India with complexities of scale and diversity, enabling quality education cannot be exclusive of systemic reforms. Our mission is to enable enriching learning experiences for children by enabling education leaders to drive school improvements. Towards this, we partner with bodies like the Ministry of Education, State education departments, as well as other Civil Society Actors. We enable school improvement through a tri-fold approach - working directly with schools through our innovation projects, working with state governments towards enabling greater system capacity, and by working with ecosystem actors to nurture a collective of changemakers. As part of our work with state governments, one of our key programs is the Punjab Education Collective - a collective of 4 organizations jointly working towards systemic school reform in the state of Punjab, for which we were recently awarded “The Collective Social Innovation Award” by the Schwab Foundation at the World Economic Forum in January 2023. Through the span of the last 10 years, we have been able to reach 272,090 schools, 276,204 education leaders and 36,457,659 children.