Jyoti Baghel

Jyoti is a Public Health Professional. She has spent the last 6 years in various roles with both Government and international NGOs as well as private organisations.

Jyoti is an alumnus of TISS, Mumbai and has worked as a Consultant at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi taking charge of monitoring, evaluation and supportive supervision of various health programs running under the Government of India.

She was also a key member in conceptualising national guidelines for Comprehensive Abortion Care, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Anemia Mukt Bharat, JSSK Dietery Norms and LaQshya.

Sarvesh Deshpande

Sarvesh is an Engineer turned Development Professional who builds bridges between “doing good” and “doing business” and believes in the power of this combination. He has over 5 years of experience in the social sector working in organisations like Oxfam India and Greenpeace India in the space of fundraising, CSR, and building strategic partnerships. He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Development Management and is passionate about enabling collective social impact to create transformative change in society.

Rachana Raj

Rachana comes with three years of experience in the development sector with rich field research and content curation skills. She holds a MA in Development (Azim Premji University) and a BA in Economics. Her undivided interest in the domain of maternal health brought her to Aastrika. Rachana comes with an understanding and experience of Societal Platform Thinking, Design Thinking, designing, and curating contextual scalable solutions that are easily consumable. Rachana is also a professional dancer and sings as well.