A youth, gender & leadership practitioner opening real career pathways for first-generation learners from rural and tribal India.
In every role she has worked with young people — with a recurring purpose: opening opportunity for first-generation learners from rural and marginalised backgrounds.
A development-sector professional and first-generation learner herself, Sheetal moved from event management and marketing into grassroots development, field research, and program leadership. Resilient and self-motivated, she describes her aspiration simply: to leave the world a little better than she found it.
Her own path as a first-generation learner anchors everything she builds for others.
Every substantive role has meant working directly with young people, on the ground.
A consistent specialism — from leadership programming to gender-transformative fellowships.
Opening doors for rural and marginalised youth who have rarely been handed any.
A youth-led non-profit in Madhya Pradesh that has spent 16+ years building an ecosystem of youth-led social change for rural and tribal communities — now her primary professional home.
Four-day workshops on gender, sexuality, patriarchy and career-making with participants aged 14–18 — plus a parallel track for boys on masculinity and gender norms.
Khandwa & Khargone — examining infrastructure, teaching, stipends and job outcomes at Industrial Training Institutes, and the struggle students face.
Over a roughly two-year engagement, Hamrahi supports early-stage organisations to register, raise funding, and build their programs, values and culture.
Navigating district bodies to enable on-ground delivery and set up centres in Khargone and Khandwa — demanding work that turns on understanding what each office needs.
I want to leave the world a little better than I found it.
fellows trained over two years in each Udaan cohort — then sent back to lead change in their own communities.
A fellow built a peer group of teenage girls to talk through the issues society rarely lets them name.
She was struck by how openly the hardest subjects were discussed in the workshops —
years of youth-led social change that Synergy Sansthan has built across rural and tribal Madhya Pradesh.
She documented Synergy’s workshops — including the flagship Udaan program — during her internship.
From freelancing, to an internship, to a project role — her association with Synergy deepened the more they worked together.
Gender-transformative youth work, primary field research, organisation-building support, and government partnership. Her current professional home.
Led a project at the non-profit launching careers for young rural women — village “Sapna Centres” run a year-long, mini-MBA-style program in local languages, then guarantee a first job. Graduates, the “Sapnewaalis,” move into project management, teaching, coding and social media.
Her longest formal role. Multi-state employability programming across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana — with a focus on gender & leadership, and on alumni engagement that keeps students connected to opportunity.
Worked across corporate and government events with 15+ brands — including YouTube, Skoda, Honda and Unacademy — organising user-feedback data along the way.
Public relations and literary events in Varanasi; an early marketing role at Qrius; and a top-10-in-India campus ambassadorship at Technex, IIT-BHU, drawing 300+ student participants.
Sheetal is now studying data and AI to deepen the work she already does — turning field observation, research and program insight into systems that can measure and scale impact.