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Repo to track tickets for organising sotm-asia-2018, Bangalore.
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[blog] Opening keynote #32

Closed planemad closed 6 years ago

planemad commented 6 years ago

We have a confirmed keynote speaker for the opening:

Speaker details

Dr. Anita Patil-Deshmukh, Executive Director of Pukar

Bio as received from speaker:

USA trained faculty neonatologist by profession, self taught social scientist by passion and developmental researcher by preference; Dr. Anita Patil-Deshmukh is the executive director of Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR). Anita received her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Harvard and worked as a faculty Neonatologist in a teaching institute in Chicago over 25 years. She played a major leadership role within India Development Service (IDS) a pioneering Chicago based organization supporting developmental projects in India for which she volunteered over 15 years. She relocated to India in 2005 to contribute to the developmental sector and joined PUKAR. Her research interests are urbanization, urban poverty, health and urban knowledge production through the lens of youth.

@jinalfoflia @poornibadrinath What other details would we require from the speaker for the post?

cc @geohacker @TejasAP @maning

geohacker commented 6 years ago

What other details would we require from the speaker for the post?

@planemad possible get pictures of impactful work?

geohacker commented 6 years ago

This is out https://medium.com/state-of-the-map-asia/announcing-our-first-keynote-speaker-dr-anita-patil-deshmukh-59846b913002