RIPA AJMERA

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Bachelor of Science in Marketing, May 2008

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Beginning in October 2008, Ripa Ajmera will be traveling throughout India to continue developing a screenplay she started researching and writing while she was a Reynolds Scholar. Her goal for the film is to educate a wide audience about the importance of educating girls in the developing world, as well as how innovative and effective organizations can and do empower local change agents to create sustainable, scalable change. She envisions using the film as a tool for recruitment of high-quality teachers, school and program administrators, and for advocacy and fundraising initiatives.

In addition to distributing the film through traditional profit-making venues, she plans to create special local film screenings to educate slum-dwellers throughout India about self -empowerment opportunities and how to access them.