Oorna Raut
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Project EduAccess
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India
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Mentor
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Jul 2022 - Present
Project EduAccess is a non-profit initiative that aims to improve access to higher education for learners from marginalised communities in South Asia. We do this by providing them free mentorship, support & guidance for admissions to foreign universities, as well as by lobbying and partnering with public and private sector entities. Project EduAccess is a non-profit initiative that aims to improve access to higher education for learners from marginalised communities in South Asia. We do this by providing them free mentorship, support & guidance for admissions to foreign universities, as well as by lobbying and partnering with public and private sector entities.
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Institute of Development Studies
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Research Assistant
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May 2023 - Jun 2023
Note-taking for Action Learning Set workshops hosted by IDS’ partner Bridging Change, as part of the project Building Back Better from Below(B4), studying citizen-state innovations to counter inequity, and promote health rights and food justice, that happened during Covid in Brighton, São Paulo, and Toronto Note-taking for Action Learning Set workshops hosted by IDS’ partner Bridging Change, as part of the project Building Back Better from Below(B4), studying citizen-state innovations to counter inequity, and promote health rights and food justice, that happened during Covid in Brighton, São Paulo, and Toronto
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People's Archive of Rural India
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India
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Online Audio and Video Media
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Editor
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Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
• Head of the PARI Library, a free-access digital archive of rural data o Curated development-related resources: government statistics, NGO reports, laws, human rights instruments, journal articles and more; arranged the 500+ resources in over 100 categorieso Led a team of 200+ volunteers to do research on, compile, write about, and edit essays on Library resourceso Fact-checked and edited over 200 essays on Library resourceso Collaborated with subject experts to develop the PARI Health Archive – a collection of over 120 health and Covid-19 related reports arranged in 28 categories• Story editing and publishing o Developmental editing for a range of articles from across rural India as per PARI's people-centric, socio-economic, and archival requirements, covering Covid-19, climate change, agrarian relations, fishery workers, and moreo Editorial support for headlines, captions, subtitles and uploading taskso Content management using the CMS Wagtail Show less
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Research Assistant
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Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
• Curated and managed the PARI Library• Edited and fact-checked essays on Library resources• Editorial support for PARI articles
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Intern
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Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
• Fact-checking for the PARI Library and FACES project, which documents people and occupations from each administrative block in India’s 700+ districts• Publishing translations of PARI stories in 14 Indian languages
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Intern
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Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
• Identified gender and caste-related articles from six Indian newspapers (English and Hindi) from 2017-18 • Classified voice recordings, photographs, diaries, magazines, advertisements, and other collections for preservation and archival • Identified gender and caste-related articles from six Indian newspapers (English and Hindi) from 2017-18 • Classified voice recordings, photographs, diaries, magazines, advertisements, and other collections for preservation and archival
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Education
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Institute of Development Studies
Master of Arts - MA, Governance, Development and Public Policy -
Lady Shri Ram College For Women
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology