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Urvashi Sahni (born 'Urvashi Malhotra'; March 22, 1955) is an Indian educationist, feminist activist, and social entrepreneur. She is known for her expertise in school governance, curriculum reform, and teacher training with a special focus on girls' education and the use of technology in education. She is a member of a sub-committee on school education of the Chief Ministers Advisory Council in Rajasthan.

Early Life and Education
Urvashi was born in Pune, India in a middle-class household. She was married in Lucknow, India at the young age of 18, soon after she had completed her school education. An avid reader and a stubborn student, she completed her college degree despite her early marriage, and graduated from the University of Pune, in 1976, with a Bachelor's in Political Science.

In the year 1984, Sahni completed a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Lucknow.

Later in 1990, she graduated with her second Master's in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, she applied for a PhD in Education and completed her doctorate in the year 1994.

Work
She is the Founder and Chief Executive of Study Hall Educational Foundation, Lucknow, India. Her current research focuses on developing and scaling a Girls’ Empowerment Program in India with the help of affordable technology. She was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in the year 2009.

Awards and Achievements
Urvashi received Berkeley’s Haas International Award for her efforts to reform education in India and bolster girls' education in 1994. In the year 2011 Urvashi was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship In the year 2009, Digital Study Hall a project co-founded by her won the The Tech Award.

Publications
Sahni, U. (2001). Children appropriating literacy: Empowerment pedagogy from young children’s perspective. in Comber, Barbara; Simpson, Anne Negotiating critical literacies in classrooms, 19, 35. ISBN: 9781135650117

Sahni, U. (1999). Postcards from India. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(2), 134-141.

Sahni, U. (2017). Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN: 9780815730385

Sahni, U. (2007). KEYNOTE: Drama in Education: Finding self, finding “home”. Caribbean Quarterly, 53(1-2), 37-48.

Sahni, U. (2015). Primary education in India: Progress and challenges. Brookings Institute.

Sahni, U. (2012). From Learning Outcomes to Life Outcomes: What Can You Do and who Can You be: a Case Study in Girls' Education in India. Center for Universal Education at Brookings.