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Shilpa Jain is a talented facilitator, author, and activist for alternatives to schooling around the globe. She worked as a learning activist for ten years with Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, based in Udaipur, India. Currently she lives near San Francisco and is the Executive Director of YES!, which provides support for passionate young social change leaders. Check out the YES! website here to learn about "JAM!" workshops for young visionaries.

Are you curious about the SDE movement in India and other parts of the world? Applying SDE principles to adult education, organizational development, and social activism? Facilitating transformational experiences for teens and young adults? Shilpa has a wealth of experience and stories to share, and she is the subject of next week's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) event:

ASDE members are invited to post questions for Shilpa on Thursday, June 14th, from 12noon-9pm/ET (9am-6pm/PT). On Thursday morning we'll send you a reminder with a direct link to the AMA page in our member forums.

BTW, our last AMA guest, Pam Laricchia, shared an abundance of wisdom about unschooling, which ASDE members can access in the AMA archives:

www.self-directed.org/forum/ama/

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