Designing Education for yourself with Project Defy | Megha Bhagat | Ep 18




Women Led Businesses show

Summary: <p>Megha Bhagat cofounded Project DEFY in 2015. https://projectdefy.org/ an organization which is focused on democratizing education. She shares her journey of becoming the first generational entrepreneur from a family of academics and military as she created something that would attempt to solve what has been historically a problem in our educational systems. Right from how we like other colonized countries adopted the factory-model of learning, Megha, explains in this episode how they help communities create their own schools called 'Nooks'. Check out the whole episode to learn about the challenges she and her team overcame over the years, and how they focused on ensuring nooks provided the environment for innovation in rural areas of India, Zimbabwe, Uganda and many more places around the world. </p> <p> </p>