Shruti Sehra

Shruti is a Managing Partner at New Profit, where she leads the organization’s work in ecosystem building and education. In this role she works to align New Profit’s efforts across education, economic mobility, and democracy to influence the social sector in service of building a thriving and inclusive nation, with a particular focus on reimagining the future of education in the US. In addition to ecosystem building and education work, Shruti currently serves on the boards of New Teacher Center, Teaching Lab, and Zearn and is an emerita board member of CASEL. 

Shruti's family has a history of giving back to communities in different ways with courage and perseverance. Her grandmother was the ad-hoc matriarch of the neighborhood in India where Shruti's mother grew up. Among other things, Shruti's grandmother enlisted a local gynecologist to work with the domestic worker community to provide education and assistance with family planning, and to help break the cycle of poverty perpetuated by high fertility rates. Shruti's father was born in Multan, a region of South Asia known for producing people with courage in the face of all kinds of danger. She feels that this combined background necessarily led her to New Profit where she now has the opportunity to work daily to boldly forge new paths to drive poverty alleviation and social justice. 

Shruti joined New Profit in 2006 while finishing a joint M.B.A./M.P.A. Prior to graduate school, she managed a campaign for State Assembly in California while starting up a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping critically-ill workers. Before that, she spent seven years working in the private sector, initially as an engineer at Honeywell, an aerospace engine manufacturer, and later in a series of quality management positions at Howmet Castings, an aerospace casting manufacturer, and Jabil Circuit, an electronics manufacturing services company. Shruti holds an S.B. in chemistry from MIT, an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School and is a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow.  When not rigorously pursuing social impact, Shruti is a meditation coach and enjoys being a playful cook and baker.