Manisha Walia

Manisha is currently working as Senior Research Associate at J-PAL on Madhya Pradesh Police (MPP-URJA Urgent Relief Just Action) scale-up project as a Qualitative Researcher. 

She is an alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a certified TOT with a wide range of experience in implementing and leading a number of strategic interventions across various states in India – empowering vulnerable section of communities, especially women and children through research, skill development, training, inclusive education for vulnerable children and school dropouts, management of health projects with a long term involvement with Oxford University and University of Virginia in field based qualitative research on crime against women and community mobilization projects.

Manisha has done substantial work on storytelling classes for children by using relevant homemade props and puppets from unused materials, which she used during her self designed workshop - ‘Gaattha’. These puppets were used for story narration, whose theme surrounded on folklore and value - based education for language development in children.