Kiran Bir Sethi

Founder/Director,The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India

Kiran Bir Sethi, an alumni of the National Institute of Design (N.I.D.), Ahmedabad, is the Founder/Director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, since 2001.In 2007, she founded ‘aProCh’ – an initiative to make our cities more child friendly. In 2009, she founded ‘Design for Change’ (DFC) – the world’s largest movement of change – of and by children and is now in 40 countries!!Some of the Awards conferred on her are the prestigious “INDEX – Design to Improve Life Award”, the “Rockefeller Foundation Youth Innovation Award”, the “Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship 2013” by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the “Asia Game Changer 2015” Award by the Asia Society, U.S.A.In March, 2015, she was amongst the Top 10 Educators, nominated for the Global Teacher Prize – instituted by the Varkey GEMS Foundation.Design for Change was declared Lego Foundation’s “Reimagine Learning Challenge Champion” in 2014 and in 2015, Design for Change won the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award.

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