Archana Prabhakar Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Currently studying urban migration, caste and health in India.• Supported further analysis for a research project studying discrimination in the Indian judiciary along religion, gender and caste lines.

New York, New York, United States

• Led a team of 6 as Project Manager for an ex-post study of USAID's global research grants program, PEER (Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research).• Designed the research framework and data collection tools to study the extent to which student researchers were included on PEER research teams across countries. • Synthesized learnings from 3 surveys and 2 rounds of interviews with principal investigators, student researchers, and staff at USAID and NAS (National Academy of Sciences), and presented a final report to all stakeholders.

New York, New York, United States

Quantitative Analysis I with Prof. Doru Cojoc (statistics)Quantitative Analysis II with Prof. Cristian Pop Eleches (econometrics)

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

• Led research design and planning of a state-wide study to measure teacher time on task andexamine correlates with various school and teacher level characteristics in a sample of200 schools in Andhra Pradesh• Created and digitized quantitative and qualitative survey tools using Kobo Toolbox• Led training for a 15 member team, mapped logistics and successfully completed pilotdata collection in a sample of 20 schools across 5 districts including observations,interviews, facilities surveys and focus group discussions

New York, United States

• Worked with leadership team on strategy to set up international operation units for US and Europe markets • Led research and analysis for business development, brand building and outreach activities• Carried out secondary research for a project with the Center for Social Value Creation, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked with the RISE India team under the mentorship of Prof. Karthik Muralidharan, Prof. Abhijeet Singh and Prof. Mauricio Romero to develop, implement and analyze experimental evaluations for education policy.• Collaborated with the state education departments and implementation partners for data collection, analysis and reporting – Telangana Mindspark, Rajasthan Mindspark, and Chhattisgarh RTE 12(1)C evaluation.• Managed teams of 120 and 80 field enumerators in Telangana and Rajasthan involving recruiting, training, mentoring and supervising project assistants, field managers, field-based surveyors, data entry operators and other office staff.• Managed data cleaning, data analysis of big data from the personalized CAL (Computer Aided Learning) system - Mindspark and the field data using STATA to produce preliminary results and graphs.

Hyderabad

• Taught 60 high school students full-time at low income private school to improve literacy by 1.5 reading levels.• Led multiple school, community and city level projects to address sanitation, nutrition, mental health and skill-building for students.

Mentored Global Citizen Year fellow from Senegal in classroom teaching and community development.

Bangaluru, Karnataka

Worked on BSW RTE Integration Strategy for Gen 6 Park Pilot Project for General Motors and BMW

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Project on 'Ethernet Communication using VHDL' for Military Communications, BEL

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Economic And Political Development

School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Concentration: Economic and Political Development, Specialization: Data and Quantitative.

Real Analysis

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, Literary and Dramatics Society,

Pre University, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computers, 94.33%

Activities and Societies: Debating, Volleyball

10Th Standard, Icse, Aggregate 95.71%

Activities and Societies: Debating and Literary, Cultural, Elocution, Rotaract Club, Volleyball, Throwball