About TDF Session 174
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About Rigzen Wangmo
Educator
Founder, Village Lab Foundation
Nubra Valley
Leh Ladakh
Rigzen Wangmo is an educator and the founder of Village Lab Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the Nubra Valley, Leh Ladakh. Rigzen is the first female from Ladakh to graduate from the prestigious Harvard University, where she pursued a Masters in Education (M.Ed), specializing in Teaching and Teacher Leadership. She founded the Ladakh Literacy Society, an initiative dedicated to promoting the love of reading and learning among people in Ladakh. She served as the First Teach For India Fellow from Ladakh. After two years of fellowship in Pune, she returned to Ladakh and worked as an Academic Director at Secmol alternative school for three years. Currently, Rigzen is working on ambitious initiatives at Village Lab Foundation, which focuses on strengthening villages in Ladakh through an innovative intergenerational education model. Rigzen believes that indigenous communities worldwide have much to offer, and we must bring that knowledge and wisdom to our education system to secure a sustainable future. Through her work, Rigzen is committed to transforming education in villages in Ladakh.