We are a small team of educators, artists, thought builders and change enthusiasts, driven to address challenges and opportunities concerning education in regions impacted by conflict. Our faith in disruptive design brings us together. Our learning journeys keep us rooted. And the communities we work with keep us persistent.
Lopa Shah
Founder, Director, Founding Faculty of Design
Lopa is our power prism, sharply making visible to us our shades amidst the grey of rains. She brings out a million laughs and has a way with words that melts the heart away. She engages, empathises, expresses through arts, along side leading her brainchild - ELICIT with her concentric leadership!
Farooq Fazli
Regional Head, Kashmir
Founding Faculty, Teach to ELICIT
Farooq Fazli is our solid sunlight! He is a vision when he leads by example, and when he talks education, compassion and spiritual growth. He climbs mountains of conflict and yet has strength to share with his people. He embodies resilience and solves relentlessly as our very own founding director of Teach to ELICIT in Kashmir.
Avni Sethi
Founding Advisor
Avni is our cultural alchemist, seamlessly blending elements of dance, memory, space, and the body to create captivating interdisciplinary experiences. A versatile practitioner trained in multiple dance idioms, she weaves her performances with inspiration drawn from syncretic faith traditions and sites of contested narratives.
Gagan Sethi
Board Member
Gagan Sethi emerges as our dynamic advisor, carrying an extensive background in the human resources industry. With proficiency in Nonprofit Organizations, Corporate Social Responsibility, Team Building, Public Speaking, and Facilitation, He is a seasoned leader, showcasing a diverse and comprehensive skill set.
Manas Daxini
Program Manager
Manas is our meticulous madari! He is organised and artful as a spider, and youthful and swift as a squirrel. He dances, writes, dreams, journals, giggles, learns and giggles more, all while skilfully leading an eclectic cohort of fellows as ELICIT’s newly introduced Program Manager!
Ashini Shah
Communications Manager
Ashini is our tech-diva, draped in capes of experience and shapes of expertise! She breathes, dreams, loves, lives, illustrates, digitises, barters, and speaks education, all while telling striking stories as ELICIT’s communications designer!
Manasvi Shah
Fundraising Lead
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TtE Torchbearers - Our Fellows
Meet our Cohort - the classic experimenters who chose to take the leap of faith and follow the road less travelled. Together, we aim to transform classroom experiences in Conflict into that of care, well-being and constructive resilience one class, one teacher, one school at a time!
COHORT 3
Avi Choukhany
Ahmedabad
Diladan Manzoor
Pulwama
Rayees Bhat
Baramulla
Sadiya Fayaz
Srinagar
C. Sudheeshyam
Bangalore
Urooj Hafiz
Srinagar
COHORT 2
Akash Dutt
Ahmedabad
Ashini Shah
Ahmedabad
Mamoon Rashid
Budgam
Saima Shafi
Awantipora
Surya Maurya
Mumbai
ALUMNI
Bilal Ahmad Wani
Pulwama
One of our brightest graduating fellows, a rare find. His persistence for inner work, and sharing the knowledge he makes from it, is infectious! He came into the fellowship wanting to change the ways of the world; he is leaving with the contentment of having grown an expansive world within himself. This powerful individual is now onboarding his students on that journey.
You are an example of persistence in the face of despair.
You are the journey, Bilal. You are #teachtoelicit
Sreejith K
Thrissur
One of our first graduating fellows. The one whose grit makes him taller than the mountains he climbed, wider than the expanses he covered, deeper than the layers he unpacked and sharper than the ices he broke! Sreejith was a phenomenon to study through this fellowship. He was, when not many were. He is, when so many are!
You saw in us what many couldn't and you took us along in your growth. You braved your fears and you willed yourself into this transformation that we'll spend a lifetime speaking of. We hope that you see what a feat this is. We hope you see yourself as big as we see you.
You are the journey, Sreejith. You are #teachtoelicit