Dolly Rateshwar

    Life Skills Collaborative

    November 28, 2023

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    With 12+ years of work experience at some of the best MNCs – Google, LinkedIn, and MySpace as one of the early team members in India. Dolly has also been a founding team member at Qyuki – an Indian Digital Media startup by Shekhar Kapur, AR Rahman and Samir Bangara.

    She led the “New Avenues and Operations” at the MIT Media Lab India Initiative where interdisciplinary efforts led to futuristic innovation way ahead of time. Also, a Co-founder at Tesseract Imaging – a spin-off from MIT Media Lab India Initiative which later got acquired by Reliance Industries.

    While in her personal time, she was always working towards giving back to the community in the form of teaching students on the street since she was in college, she has finally focused her career on delivering social impact through “The Dharavi Dream Project’s #AfterSchoolofHiphop” – an initiative to give hip-hop artists (under-served talent) of Asia’s biggest slum a platform:

    1. to have free and easy access  to share one’s thoughts and expressions through music, dance and art form 
    2. to give a voice to celebrate and a stage to showcase their talent not only in Dharavi of Mumbai but Dharavi’s of the world
    3. to develop life skills such as resilience, teamwork, creativity, and self-expression through “Music and Hip-Hop.

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    "The educational systems should rely on three solid foundations: enhancing values, life skills, and formal educational curriculum. Each of these bases completes the other, none of them can stand on its own. "

    - Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

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