Personal Info

First Name

Rajiv

Last Name

Venkataramanan

Organizational Affiliation

Fels Fellow

Bio

Hello Everybody, My name is Rajiv Venkataramanan and I am a Fels Fellow here at Philadelphia Notebook. I'll be with the Notebook for the summer, writing about education funding issues in Pennsylvania. I became passionate about education advocacy and research while I was an undergraduate at Harvard University. I was involved with various tutoring projects that gave me eye-opening exposure to the dilapidated condition of Boston's forgotten, inner-city schools. After graduating from college, I became a community organizer with ACORN Philadelphia. Within a few months of organizing in the Philadelphia area, I again became deeply involved with education organizing/advocacy efforts, which gave me a real sense of how important education is to uplifting low and moderate income communities. I will be attending Georgetown University Law Center this fall, where I hope to study civil rights and human rights law.