Anjali Adukia

Graduate Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Anjali Adukia is a doctoral student at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education.  Her primary fields of interest are development and labor economics, concentrating on issues related to increasing access to education and understanding the education production function.  Her current work focuses on examining the impact of sanitation in schools and understanding non-monetary returns to education.

Originally from Illinois, Anjali earned her master's from Harvard and her bachelor's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in Molecular and Integrative Physiology.  She has a background in non-profit management and higher education administration.  Before moving to Boston, Anjali handled volunteer management and training with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and community relations and program coordination with the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs in San Francisco.  After her master's degree, Anjali served as a Visiting Administrative Fellow in the Office of the President and Provost at Harvard and then worked for the Democratic National Convention Committee.  Her international interests took her to India where she started a city-wide service initiative in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and worked with tsunami rehabilitation coordination in coastal Tamil Nadu with Indicorps.  Her past research projects include examining the role of transcriptional and growth factors in cancer and organ development at Northwestern Medical School, aiding with research and data collection for studies on affirmative action with the Civil Rights Project at HGSE, and consulting with the Broadmoor Neighborhood Project in New Orleans as part of rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts post-Hurricane Katrina with the Harvard Kennedy School.  Anjali is currently a graduate student associate with the South Asia Initiative and with the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.