shaalini ganesalingam

* Conducted ethnographic research on healthcare accessibility for the Irula tribe in the Nilgiris Biosphere and evaluated the community health worker intervention recently established by the Keystone Foundation. * Shadowed and interviewed community health workers, indigenous healers, allopathic public and private healthcare staff and indigenous villagers to identify underlying social determinants that affect community wellbeing. * Presented findings to village members and Keystone Foundation board members in Tamil and in English.

* Trained to speak basic Darija and teach English at the Sidi Moumen Center with further language training with host family. * Developed one-and-a-half to two hour class lessons, five days a week, to teach beginner and pre-intermediate English classes to underserved teens and young adults.

Support higher educational institutions, corporations, public agencies, and nonprofits to develop STEM talent strategies primarily through fostering stakeholder partnerships and leveraging STEMconnector research and resources. Organized a symposium on public-private partnerships for Tata Consultancy Services and Florida International University Developed an RFP for a major corporation seeking non-profit project partners fostering strategic stakeholder partnerships. Led preliminary landscape analysis for Feed Nourish Thrive initiative’s reboot, conducting interviews with post-secondary agricultural educators and C-suite level, R&D, and CSR professionals in corporations such as Corteva, Bayer, and ADM.