Shaheen Mistri (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian social activist and educator known as the founder of Akanksha Foundation, and social activist, an Indian non-profit educational initiative in Mumbai and Pune, Occupation in CEO of Teach for India since 2008.
[5] Shaheen Mistri, as a young college student, walked into the Mumbai slums and expressed her desire to teach the less privileged children who roamed the streets.
[6] Shaheen founded the first Akanksha Center in 1989, enrolling 15 children and employing college friends as volunteers.
It eventually evolved into the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit education project that provided after-school tutoring to children from low-income.
Teachers teach children using an innovative methodology, which has won the foundation international honors.