Our Team
founder - director
Dr Sunita Gandhi, an Indian educator, researcher and author, is CEO of Dignity Education Vision International (DEVI Sansthan), and Chief Academic Advisor of her family-run City Montessori School, the world’s largest school, and a recipient of the UNESCO Peace Prize. A PhD in Physics from Cambridge University, UK, Dr. Gandhi served as an Economist at the World Bank.
She is the author of Disruptive Literacy: A Roadmap for Urgent Global Action (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her recognitions include India’s Educator of the Year 2014, Visionary of Uttar Pradesh 2017, and Shining World Caring Award, Taiwan, 2020.
Management Team
Ashfaque Ciddikie
Administrative Officer
Mayank Agarwal
Administration Head
Yusra Fatima
Partnerships Manager
Sumita Bhatt
Training & Supervision Head
Ashfaque Ciddikie
Administrative Officer
Training & Projects Team
Milita Halder
Senior Program Manager
Abhishek Srivastava
Program Associate
Abuzar Mujeeb
Trainer
Jai Prakash Awasthi
Program Manager
Shivendra Pratap Singh
Program Manager
Tom Delaney
Trainer
Content & Graphics Team
Saurabh Kumar
Content Head
Almas Ruby
Content Writer
Navanita Shome
Content Writer
Saif Ali
Sr. Graphic Designer
Sanjay Tandon
Content Writer
Media & IT Team
Manish Srivastava
IT Head
Aslam Khan
Video Editor
Mohd Haider
Videographer & Video Editor
Nawaz Akhtar
Videographer
Piyush Mishra
Videographer
Vedant Gupta
Website Designer
Operations & logistics Team
Akhilesh Nath Tripathi
Project Associate
Anshu
Office Executive
Devesh Patel
ALfA Ambassador
Dharmendra Pandey
ALfA Ambassador
Jitendra Kumar Yadav
ALfA Ambassador
Prince Arafat Salim
Project Associate
Praveen Kumar
ALfA Ambassador
Priyanka
ALfA Ambassador
Sarvesh Chandra Rastogi
ALfA Ambassador
Sawan Kumar
Office Executive
Shreeya Agarwal
ALfA Ambassador
Shubhanker Dey
ALfA Ambassador
Syed Mohd Athar Saleem
Project Associate
community volunteers
Zeba
Project Coordinator
Nisha
Literacy Worker
Heena Khan
Literacy Worker
Anjum
Literacy Worker