Rajesh Sankat Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

3x3 is a women-owned inclusive innovation agency designing for more equitable and just outcomes.We bring communities, the public sector, and private entities together as allies to create social transformation and impact — from New York to New Delhi.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As part of StrategyCorp’s Municipal Affairs Practice, I provided clients (local governments) achieve their strategic, policy and planning goals while building institutional capacity that help to improve and revitalize communities and areas. I specialized in providing clients with advice on wide-scale municipal engagements in Canada and the USA, including.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nested in the Parks Development and Capital Projects Branch, the Public Engagement team works to help build a City of Toronto where parks and public assets reflect the voices of residents, while centering communities left out of traditional consultation processes, through thoughtful design and meaningful dialogue. As a team, we bring a combination of.

Toronto, Canada Area

The Toronto Urban Fellows are part of a global fellowship program providing promising young policy professionals with an intensive introduction to the governance, operations and administration of Canada’s largest city. The year-long program enhances Fellows' leadership skills, broadens their understanding of the City of Toronto and its policy choices, and.

Toronto, Canada Area

• The Strategy and Innovation Branch combines business experience, user research, and a design-thinking approach to support the policy community and government’s decision-making. The Branch sits at the unique.
• Leading the design of an internal change management strategy that champions user-centric and digital-first design principles, enhances the government’s capacity to adopt new ways of working, and strengthens the ability.
• Co-leading the development, build, and implementation of ONTrack - a landmark digital product that enables data-driven decision-making across the Ontario Public Service - through scoping, mapping, evaluating, and.
• Act as a change agent by building relationships with internal and external leaders to improve risk identification and management approaches across the enterprise to address policy challenges and deliver results.

Toronto, Canada Area

• The Policy Innovation Hub - recently shortlisted as one of Apolitical's 100 teams teaching government the skills of the future - is an in-house consulting team that partners with ministries to deliver on government.
• Led project teams comprised of ministry staff and service providers, overseeing all areas of project management, monitoring progress against targets, and assessing risk and issues throughout project lifecycles
• Lead Project Journalist for the Hub - led the research, writing, and delivery of the Hub's case study series "The Innovation Files." Includes collaborating across government departments to researched draft, and design.
• Provided strategic support to ministries to solve problems and work in new ways, including using service design and systems design methodologies to better address citizen needs and map interactions between stakeholders.
• Graphic design lead responsible for overall Hub marketing and branding. Includes ensuring all Hub materials and internal website had a consistent design, tone, and aesthetic (pitch decks, workshop/event materials.
• Worked collaboratively with team members to design, facilitate and evaluate capacity-building, course-based workshops on topics such as Strategic Foresight, Human-Centred Design, and User Research

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

• Beyond the Headlines (BTH) is a one-hour current affairs talk radio show aimed at providing a greater understanding and thoughtful discussion of the various policy issues in our daily news headlines. BTH aims to take.
• Recruited, trained, and managed a team of 25 student producers in the production of weekly radio shows/podcasts
• Redeveloped BTH’s communications strategy to engage a larger audience across major social media platforms, recently resulting in a 207% increase in online engagement on Twitter and 86% on Facebook; managed BTH’s.
• Episodes as executive producer, host, or technical producer include The Shared Economy II, Free Movement in the EU, Does the Prime Minister Really Matter, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and more..
• Acted as on-air interviewer with top policy analysts on key issues impacting Canadians, and responsible for curating radio content, coordinating guest bookings, and editing radio clips for weekly current affairs radio.

Toronto, Canada Area

• The Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation is an independent public policy think tank located at the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto and Ontario’s non-partisan, evidence-based voice on.
• Co-authored a research paper, "Unpacking Impact" on impact measurement for social enterprises that summarized findings from the public forum and provided government recommendations.
• Event managed, hosted and facilitated a public forum on impact measurement that was used to launch Ontario’s social enterprise strategy. Analyzed and distilled insights and user feedback from this forum for use in the.
• Executed meaningful stakeholder consultations with senior government officials from the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade (MEDJCT), federal government representatives, global impact measurement.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Representing over 17, 000 graduate students across 85 departments, the UTGSU is one of the cornerstones for student advocacy at the University of Toronto. As an active contributor to student life at one of Canada’s.
• Project managing the 2016 UTGSU Election which involved overseeing a budget of $15,000, responding to stakeholder inquiries regarding election policies, and remaining accountable to the GSU’s 17,000 members
• Successfully co-ordinating elections to ensure the democratic process was maintained in a fair, accessible, and transparent manner
• Identifying opportunities for improvement, optimizing an election strategy and online voting system, and implementing various strategic initiatives in collaboration with various university administrative stakeholders.

Toronto, Canada

• During July and August, the University of Toronto's International English program offers students, 12 to 17 years of age, the opportunity to take part in a variety of English and Academic programs. Throughout the.
• Collaborated with a team of 11 peers to implement safe, rewarding, and culturally enriching programs for international youth students.
• Conducted research on cultural sensitivity and equity practices in order to develop and implement a series of workshops for students that promoted inter-cultural awareness and sensitivity

Toronto, Canada Area

• Brightspark Travel helps teachers take their students on customized, personalized educational and performance tours. Their team always remains focused on keeping it simple, keeping it fresh, keeping it fun and making.
• Managed and coordinated all logistics for a total of 64 school trips to New York City, Washington D.C, and Quebec City, with each trip ranging between 5-6 days long, and responsible for 50 to 100 students
• Engaging youth in discussion on relevant topics pertaining to the city’s culture, history, and politics; conducted various walking tours of Manhattan, Washington D.C., etc. to familiarize students and staff
• Demonstrating superb oral communication and interpersonal skills by engaging youth in discussion on relevant topics pertaining to a city’s culture, history, and politics

Master’S Degree, Master Of Public Policy, 3.8

Activities and Societies: SPPG Students' Association, Beyond The Headlines (89.5 FM), The Gender and Policy InitiativeMaster of Public.

Honour'S Bachelors Of Arts, Criminology; Ethics, Society & Law, 3.8

Activities and Societies:President, University of Toronto Criminology Students'​ Association 2013-14 Chief Returning Officer, Victoria.

Semester Exchange, Social Policy And Human Rights Law

Summer Exchange, Criminology And Criminal Justice