The College of Education is pleased to congratulate doctoral student in Educational Psychology, Ananya Tiwari, on being named the 2019 Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award Recipient. The International Achievement Awards recognize outstanding alumni, faculty, and students whose exceptional work, service, and/or scholarship has made a significant, global impact.
Ananya is a second year PhD student studying socio-emotional skills at the intersection of poverty and gender. She is also working on a NSF study on Broadening Participation for underrepresented minorities.
Ananya was born and raised in a small city called Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India, and earned her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. She dabbled in Neuroscience in Cambridge, Göttingen and Stockholm before switching to Education. She was a school teacher in a rural school for two years and digitized science curriculum for grades 5 and 6 in Hindi. Thereafter, she led resilience-based interventions for a research organization in Bihar, India for 10,000 first-generation female learners and 200 teachers. She also led the work on growth mindset and intrinsic motivation at systemic level for the state of Uttar Pradesh and has designed programs for more than 100,000 teachers and 3 million children in low resource settings.
She will be recognized at a banquet happening November 20, 2019, at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Congratulations to Ananya on this notable achievement!
