Swati Tiwari comes from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. However, she moved to Delhi with her parents in early childhood. She is a postgraduate student in the Women and Gender Studies program at IGNOU. She is one of the founding members of the organization “Ideal Youth for Revolutionary Changes,” which primarily works with youth and adolescents. She has facilitated several sessions of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) with adolescents. She comes from an art background, and has been using forum theater as a tool for creating social awareness.
As a Digital Swaraj Fellow at DEF, she has played a key role in setting up a digital school in the Savariya Digar village of the Nandurbar district in Maharashtra. This digital school initiative focused on both the physical and mental development of children among the tribal community of Savariya Digar, through the integration of digital tools. She developed a curriculum tailored for Marathi-medium students from classes 5th to 10th and conducted training sessions on digital literacy in the village.
Swati was also a key member of the final phase of the ‘Samartpur’ project, a rural entrepreneurship-based model designed to create ideal smart villages in India. She managed data from 9 states and more than 100 villages. She worked with the team and learned about different phases of project management, training and monitoring, and data analysis.
