As a Senior Associate at SAFIC, Dr. Mehra works in the areas of curriculum development, research, content creation, writing, editing, teaching, organizing, etc. for various projects.
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Dr. Mehra also coordinates all works related to SAFIC’s partnership with Pondicherry University, which also includes designing and teaching post-graduate courses. She is in-charge for all works related to Renaissance, the monthly e-journal of SAFIC. She also looks after the content creation and editing works for three websites and three Facebook pages run by SAFIC.
Dr. Mehra has a PhD in Education from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. From January 1999 to July 2007 she worked as a full-time professor of Education at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA. In addition to teaching courses in curriculum design, academic writing, qualitative and feminist research, and pursuing her own research and writing, she also spearheaded and directed the development of Integral Knowledge Systems, an academic space grounded in the framework of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga.
She is the recipient of several research grants and teaching excellence awards. Her other education includes MA and BA degrees in Economics from Delhi University. Before moving to the US, she worked as a high school Economics teacher and school administrator in Delhi for 5 years.
From 2007 to 2013, Dr. Mehra worked at Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry as faculty and in-charge of academic programmes. Her work included facilitating online courses, organizing and facilitating teaching sessions at residential study programmes, editing a quarterly journal and a monthly newsletter.
In addition to her scholarly publications and presentations, Dr. Mehra has written several articles on issues related to Indian education, culture and society for e-magazines like Swarajya, Newsinsight.net, LivingWiseProject, IndiaFacts, Pragyata and a few more. Her writings have also been published in journals focusing on Sri Aurobindo Studies such as Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Next Future, Sraddha, New Race, and Collaboration. She is the author of two books: “ABC’s of Indian National Education” and “The Thinking Indian: Essays on Indian Socio-Cultural Matters in the Light of Sri Aurobindo.”
