Lopa is the Founding Director of ELICIT Foundation, a social organisation driven to design alternatives in education for conflict impacted territories. She has been the Principal, and Director of Design, Research and Development at Dolphin International School, Pulwama, Kashmir for 5 years. She has built her skills over 12 years of experience in initiating social change through design thinking and applied theatre arts, in collaboration with private and community schools, non-governmental organisations, media collectives and socio-educational organisations like Teach For India. She has founded and runs Native, a research initiative, working on identifying learning opportunities within livelihood practices. A Social Entrepreneur, Designer, and Educator, Lopa is driven to design strategic educational experiences for learning institutes across a range of socio-economic communities in India. Lopa has a Advanced Diploma in Design in Education from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, graduated with BA English honours from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad and has a certified training in Arts based therapy from BOAT, New Delhi.Lopa is a recepient of Acumen India Fellowship 2020 and Caux Scholars Asia Plateau Scholarship 2022.