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Jayanthi Pushkaran is the Senior Program Officer, Adolescent Girls at EMpower. She is responsible for identifying and managing grantee partnerships with a special focus on rural India. Her role is to facilitate technical assistance activities to ensure strong programmatic support of grantee partners. In this capacity, she supports grant administration and related communications in India. She also oversees the M&E process of EMpower’s Adolescent Girls Learning Community in Mumbai. Prior to joining Empower, Jayanthi has worked at the National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies and Delhi Greens. She acquired an M.Phil degree in Science and Public Policy from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Master’s degree from the University of Delhi, in Environmental Sociology. She is based in New Delhi.