What began as a chance meeting at a Gies College of Business-led conference in Tanzania has evolved into a research partnership that is examining the democratization of education for teenage girls in rural India during the pandemic.
Gies professor Aravinda Garimella is working with doctoral candidate Ananya Tiwari, whose non-profit SwaTaleem works with government-run residential girls secondary schools (KGBVs) that are designed to improve literacy in India and keep girls from dropping out of school.