Knight Center’s board member wins award

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Knight Center for International Media’s advisory board member, Rukmini Banerji, has received the first Maulana Azad Shiksha award for her work with Pratham, a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving universal primary education in India.

Chief Minister of the state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, gave the award to Banerji, Pratham’s director of program and national leadership team senior member, as recognition of her strong collaboration with the local government to increase the number of students attending school in the area.

Though initially trained as an economist, Banerji has become increasingly involved in primary education.

She is one of the top names in the field and recently spoke at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York as part of a panel, “Global Expansion of Programs that Increase Quality Education.”

Pratham has reached more than 20 million children through its programs over the last 10 years and hopes that by 2010, every child in India will have attained at least a basic level of literacy and math.

Posted on December 1, 2008

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