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Ms. Anchal Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate at IIT Delhi. Her research encompasses tactile perception of objects in the visually challenged. Drawn towards innovations exercising imagination, scientific thinking, and strong user empathy, she has mentored and participated in diverse social innovation projects and won two awards by IISc, Bangalore and IIT-Delhi with her team. She has led and been a speaker in events propagating innovation including those by AIM, NITI AYOG.

She completed her M.Des. in Industrial design (from SPA, New Delhi) and interned at GVIC, PepsiCo, India. She was acknowledged for her thesis work for integrating cultural spatial forms in a unique product using principles of light and shadows to educate children about unity. The project was sponsored by the Design Clinic Scheme by GoI and NID and was featured as a finalist in Toycathon 2021 and TISDC 2018. During her B.Arch. she emerged as a 2nd ranker both for her thesis work on ‘a school for experiential learning’ and overall 5-year academic performance.

In her Fulbright-Nehru project, she will analyse how to better convey three-dimensionality in two-dimensional tactile stimuli. Although layered and complex, she believes with continual deep-work and problem-solving acumen, this work can profoundly advance and contribute towards accessible STEM education for those without vision.

She believes in a multi-faceted growth and commends the perseverance sports can bring to life. She has played Throwball at National level and won silver medal (Badminton) at college level. Being perceptive towards life, she exercises self-expression through art, writing, and short videos.

Ms. Pallavi Khare works in the field of strategic communications with a focus on community empowerment from 2019. Ms. Khare started her career as an arts and culture curator at Godrej India Culture Lab. The Godrej India Culture Lab is a cultural space and a multimedia online network that sought to amplify marginal voices across the intersections of gender, class, and region through innovative public programing. Here, Ms. Khare curated cultural events around globally pertinent issues of gender and sexuality rights, environmental conservation and community rights, and cultural place making in contemporary India. She then went on to lead community impact and public scholarship initiatives at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore such that the valuable research produced at IIMI could positively enable the local and national community, businesses, academia, and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Ms. Khare has master’s degree in media and cultural studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Delhi. While at TISS, she produced two documentary films: Ghutan, which documented the plight of communities displaced because of developmental projects in Mumbai as well as Aamchi BEST, which showed the impact of privatization of public transport and its repercussions on public accessibility and mobility.

Through her Fulbright-Nehru Master’s fellowship, Ms. Khare aims to learn to leverage the potential of the multi-dimensional, dynamic, and evolving global media scape to drive social and cultural transformations.