Hi, I am Jaya Ramchandani, an experimental educator working with institutions and civil society to build capacities and conditions for pluriversal futures. My work is grounded in the premise that systems only change when the people within them build personal, collective, and systemic capacities to intervene in meaningful ways. I help make that change accessible and achievable.
My approach as an educator draws on experiences from the informal and formal learning sectors.
In 2015, I co-directed India’s first interdisciplinary learning festival, The Story of Light, in partnership with the Government of Goa and the UN’s International Year of Light. While exploring the intersection of science, philosophy, and culture through art and design, I saw the impact of making interdependence visible to the public. I also realized that for large-scale awareness to become sustained action, these conceptual seeds needed to be embedded into daily learning environments.
That led me to spend the last decade working within the United World Colleges movement in Japan and Wales, and the United Nations International School in New York to understand how to create educational experiences for a better world. My roles spanned from teaching physics, theory of knowledge and general science to contributing to the new Systems Transformation Pathway. Navigating these institutional environments taught me that while education is changing, the structures and methods of neocolonial educational models stay intact.
In 2026, I co-created the Systems Change Learning Guide with Raïsa Mirza to gather resources on lifelong learning areas towards pluriversal futures. This framework codifies our learnings from our lived experiences of changemaking, offering changemakers, educators, and leaders a structured, actionable starting point for systems work.
I currently consult with educational institutions and civil society organizations to create the conditions required for connection and capacity building. Whether designing high school pathways and programs, developing professional development experiences, or engaging in broader strategic planning, I am available for long-term consulting or targeted, one-off engagements.
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