About Kalpana Kaul

This is how Kalpana is a Changemaker:
Kalpana is a development professional by training, having completed her Masters at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, in 1982. In 1980, she graduated with Psychology Honors from Delhi University. Kalpana combines field experience and activism with research and journalistic writing/editing. She began her career at TISS where she helped set up the Women's Studies Center. She went on to work with and conduct research on street children, which resulted in several publications, including a first-ever manual for house parents. In Bangalore, she was part of the core team that set up India's first magazine on education, targeted at educationists and parents. In The Hague, as Program Specialist she co-headed the Asia Desk of a major Dutch nonprofit, the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Her primary responsibility was program development in specific countries of the region and the identification of potential partners.