Kiran Bir Sethi
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| Kiran Bir Sethi | |
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| Born | Kiran Bir 8 April 1966 Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| 🏡 Residence | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Bishop Cotton Girls' School National Institute of Design |
| 💼 Occupation | Director, The Riverside School, Ahmedabad Director, Design for Change |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Geet Sethi |
Kiran Bir Sethi (born 8 April 1966) is an Indian designer, educationist, education reformer, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Riverside School, Ahmedabad, India and of Design for Change. She also initiated the aProCh movement. Born in Bangalore, India, Sethi comes from a family of designers. With a degree in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, she began her career designing restaurants, and later, writing for newspapers. When her children started going to school Sethi set up The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, followed by aProCh, and finally Design for Change.
Early life[edit]
Sethi was born and brought up in Bangalore, the youngest of three children. Her father, Raghbir Singh Bir was an industrial lathe designer educated at the Indian Institute of Technology. Sethi followed her sister to the National Institute of Design and eventually graduated with a degree in Visual communication.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
Sethi began her career working in restaurant design.[1] She founded The Riverside School, Ahmedabad in 2001. The school has grown from 27 students and 7 teachers in 2001 to 374 students and 56 teachers students in 2013.[4]
Sethi created aProCh (a Protagonist in every Child), an initiative that partners with the city municipal corporation, city police, news agencies and business and design universities in Ahmedabad to create secure and nurturing environments and spaces for children.[2][5] She also started Design for Change in 2009.[6][7]
Awards and recognition[edit]
Sethi became an Ashoka Fellow in 2008.[8] Her initiative Design for Change was the winner of a design award, the INDEX – Design to Improve Life Award,[9] in Copenhagen, Denmark in September 2011 and Design for Change was a recipient of The Rockefeller Foundation Innovation award in 2012.[10] She won the Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship 2013 in Social Entrepreneurship.[1]
Sethi has also been invited to speak at a number of summits and conferences including TED, the M.I. Symposium, i4P Society, and Ashoka.[11][12]
Personal life[edit]
Sethi lives in Ahmedabad with her husband, world billiards champion Geet Sethi and their two children, Raag and Jazz.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Educational Excellence, One Child at a Time | TruthAtlas | Discover who's changing your world". truthatlas.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kiran Bir Sethi | Ashoka – India". india.ashoka.org. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Packing a Punch is her middle name – Enter Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder Riverside School. | Mentors | For Students | Twenty19 Blog". twenty19.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ ":: School Riverside :: HISTORY". schoolriverside.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ ":: aProCh :: ABOUT US". aproch.org. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ ":: Design for Change :: CONTACT US". dfcworld.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Social Change Stories". sochinaction.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Ashoka Fellows: Kiran Bir Sethi". www.ashoka.org. Ashoka Innovators for the Public. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ↑ "Design for Change Award". http://designtoimprovelife.dk. Index:. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "The Rockefeller Foundation to Host Annual 'Innovation Forum' to Explore How the Benefits of New Technologies Can Positively Impact the World's Poor". Rockefeller Foundation. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ↑ "School Riverside ::TEAM". schoolriverside.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Kiran Sethi | Speaker | TED.com". ted.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Kiran Bir Sethi: The Design Thinker | Ashoka – India". india.ashoka.org. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
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