Dr. Shilpa Sahay is a doctorate in Educational Technology from University of Florida and has been teaching and researching at Hunter College, CUNY and Steinhardt School, NYU. She is currently researching teacher perception towards integrating STEM technology and design-thinking in classrooms in the US and India. She did her Masters in International Education at New York University. Prior to that, she did a Masters in Social Work and Bachelors in Political Science at Delhi University, India. She has over a decade of working experience with grass root NGOs, UN bodies, research groups at universities, and multinational organizations. She aspires to work on educational projects that can solve real-world problems of illiteracy and lack of education. She wants to explore potentialities of distance digital learning narrowing the traditional North-South global divide. Dr. Sahay is a Public Voices Fellow at the OpEd Project.
