Rana Sreegiriraju

At Yakshi, all of our work is based on the principles and values of ‘popular education’ pedagogy. I helped conduct workshops based on this pedagogy to equip our fellows with an understanding of their rights and build perspectives based on the values of the Constitution of India. I helped design these workshops with the objective of turning the participants—young Adivasi and Dalit women from rural parts of AP and Telangana—into community leaders.

Some of my notable achievements at Yakshi include-

• Organising, facilitating, and documenting capacity-building workshops for the various Dalit and Adivasi community collectives.

• Leading the organisation’s communication with our many funders and delivering periodical (quarterly, half-yearly and annual) reports of our project’s progress.

• Worked as a medium between various donors and beneficiary communities to design, monitor and evaluate projects’ progress and outcomes.

• Creating internal policy documents of various government schemes and policies and making them accessible to the Dalit and Adivasi Communities

• Strengthening our association with local communities through regular visits to understand the on-ground issues and collectively develop solutions.

• Worked with communities to create new, younger leaders and increase the membership of community collectives.

• Helped design and organise capacity-building workshops, which helped them develop livelihood opportunities.

• Documented the lives, achievements, and difficulties of community leaders, members, and local people (Text, Video, and photo)

• Designed multiple income-generating verticals and a concrete plan to make Yakshi self-sustainable in the coming years.

• Developed an extensive strategy to archive the work done by Yakshi and its achievements over the past four decades.

• Primary responsibilities included covering the digital payments ecosystem in India, including reporting on the payment service providers, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and its policies pertaining to digital payments, cryptocurrencies etc., the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Electronics, and Information Technology.
• I also reported on developments in the telecom, healthcare, and the digital (internet-based) sectors. I covered extensively, MediaNama's in-house events focusing on India's data protection and e-commerce laws.

• Primary responsibility was to deliver accurate financial market activity to investors and market players on a real time basis.
• Reported on the Indian money markets including, the GILTS (Government bonds), overnight Call Money and Interest Rate Swap markets, the RBI's press releases, reports, policy meetings etc.
• Reporting included writing - intra-day market copies and summaries, analysis and elaborate pieces on market trends, conducting market polls, financial results of banks and financial institutions.
• Also covered banking events and conducted interviews with bankers and government officials. Built a reliable pool of industry sources for exclusive stories and breaking news.