For her contributions and acheivements to community leadership, service, and activism, Educational Psychology PhD candidate Ananya Tiwari has been awarded one of two 2020-2021 YMCA Fred S. Bailey Fellowships for graduate students and professionals on campus.
University YMCA Bailey Scholars are empathetic, thoughtful, and action-oriented citizens leaders who contribute positively to our local and global communities. Bailey Scholars engage in critical dialogue about social justice, environmental issues, faith, and the international community and seek out new and innovative ways to approach real problems facing our world.
Ananya Tiwari’s vision is to have a world where the oppressed get access to quality education as a tool for transformation. Her organization SwaTaleem, tackles child marriage by keeping girls in school and building their socio emotional skills, in a bottom up approach. She uses human centered design for at-scale interventions around pedagogy which could change the way global poverty is tackled through education. Born in India, Ananya studied Neuroscience before teaching in rural schools and digitizing Science curriculum in Hindi. A gold medalist in Psychology and a Young India Fellow, Ananya worked on resilience-based and intrinsic motivation interventions for 100,000 teachers.
Congratulations, Ananya, on your continued work and recognition!
