Advisory Board: 

Ashish is the founder of Shiksharth, designing contextually relevant education solutions for children coming from spaces of conflict and adverse geography. As an engineer turned education sector contributor with 18+ years of experience in information technology and education. After working with Infosys and NIIT Ltd, he has been contributing in the space of education in Sukma and Bastar, Chhattisgarh for more than a decade now. Ashish is a compassionate life-path innovator who has been working relentlessly to ensure positive childhood experiences to children coming from spaces of conflict and adversity.  His journey has been compassionate and non-traditional with the focus not on scale but on depth. Prior to Shiksharth, he has been an entrepreneur with Prarambh, Bachpan Banao and AwakIND. He is also an Acumen India Fellow, Teach for India Fellow and is a practitioner of giving as a way of life and is a volunteer for DaanUtsav.

At RootsNews, Ashish helps with strategizing the thematic areas in education for the relevant stories as well as the geographic locations for such stories.

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Amit is a non-conformist and a believer in multipotentiality as well as grace. Over the course of his professional life, he has learnt and moved on to a relatively more riskier (read less financially rewarding) work propositions in the search of something more purposeful and worthwhile.  He has a high degree of interest in education and environment and offers workshops on environmental sustainability and climate action. He has been a Teach for India fellow and many times thinks of his life in pre and post TFI terms. At Paper Ball, his focus is on designing and developing it as a platform that allows different pursuits working towards the goal of environmental sustainability to incubate and flourish.  He believes that environmental sustainability will not be technology driven but people driven and hence it shall be for each person to take the responsibility and ownership of their lifestyle. Since 2019, Amit prefers riding a bicycle for intra-city work related travel and looks forward to saving many tonnes of CO2 not just through his cycling but also through the minimalistic lifestyle that he is progressively moving to.

At Rootsnews, Amit provides inputs on thematic areas for our stories related to environment and climate change.

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Editorial Team:  

Ritesh is a storyteller at heart. On most Sundays when he is not leading a river clean up party, you might find him at different places in the city interacting with someone interesting that he has found on the street. With more than a decade of media and communication field under his belt, Ritesh believes in slow emergence. He earlier worked with The Indian Express newspaper as a correspondent and covered various beats in central Gujarat. 

Ritesh is an inner journey navigator in the mould of a change maker. He believes in deep and slow but meaningful work. At RootsNews he leads the overall planning and execution.