Sanjiv Rao, Director
Email: srao@nysan.org, Tel: (646) 943-8671
Sanjiv joined the NYSAN team in July 2008, prior to which he was the founding Director of the Policy and Advocacy Leadership Initiative at Teach For America's national office. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher at New York University's Research Center for Leadership in Action. Sanjiv began his career as an elementary school teacher in Oakland, California in 1994, where he partnered with a range of out-of-school programs and providers. After six years as a classroom teacher, he served as Senior Associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, focusing on leadership development, standards-based education reform, and promoting high-quality youth-serving policies. Sanjiv has researched and written articles and educational curricula, primarily on youth development, community organizing, and education reform topics. He was a founding board member of Democracy Prep Charter School, a high-performing charter school in Harlem. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Public Administration at New York University.
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