Programming for Youth Living in Peri-Urban, Informal Settlements

Devika Mahadevan was a Hart Fellow in Zimbabwe from 2000-01. Devika worked with Inter-Country Peoples' Aid, a local NGO operating programs in peri-urban communities in and around the capital.

Devika graduated from Brandeis University in 2000. After her Hart Fellowhip, Devika worked in Beijing, China, and Bombay, India, on gender and poverty issues. Devika then obtained her graduate degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics before returning to her home of Bombay, India, to become the Documentation and Communications Manager for an Indian-based non-governmental organization, SPARC, which promotes housing and infrastructure rights for the urban poor.