An educator by choice, Durga (Ananthalakshmi) Sitaraman is passionate about holistic education that fosters ecological consciousness in children. Holding a M.S. degree in Economics, she started her career in economic and statistical research. She has been working at Prakriya for the past 18 years, co-developing and co-holding a spectrum of practices and institutional policies that focus on humanising education and taking nature’s principles to the classrooms.

With over 25 years’ experience of teaching in schools in India, Rema Kumar is currently a Trustee of KNA Foundation for Education. Bhoomi College and Prakriya Green Wisdom School are both institutions run by the trust. These are two institutions which she has co-created, partnering in the vision of humanising education in tune with nature’s principles. Rema is also keenly involved in programmes on deep inner-work and institution-building and is a facilitator for the Sankalan Programmes.