Archana Prabhakar

Archana Prabhakar is a Research Associate with the RISE India team and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is currently studying the impact of the Right to Education (RTE) Act’s provision of free private schooling for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Chhattisgarh, India. She is also working on Mindspark Rajasthan which seeks to study the impact of education technology on learning outcomes in public school students. Prior to this, she was a Teach for India Fellow working in an urban-slum in Hyderabad.