Avital Datskovsky

Age: 25

Home Town: Lower Merion, Pennsylvania

Education: BA- Bachelor of Arts, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Specific Field Interests: Education and Gender

Placement: Gramin Shiksha Kendra - Sawai Madhupur, Rajasthan

Area of Focus: Education

Highlights: Avital loved staying in India before and finds it an incredible and fascinating country. She is excited to be challenged and to learn from India, while gaining experience on the ground, learning from the people at her host organization and the other fellows to translate skills she has gained into development in India. She is excited to be challenged to think differently and to grow. Through this fellowship, Avital wants to get a better understanding of development in India and learn what skills that she can best contribute to development, build new ones and broaden her understanding of development and India. Her study of Hindi, past experience of living in India and her experience of having to move rapidly between multiple roles and requirements while working at a startup are few experiences that Avital feels would help her in this fellowship.