Pyari Our team Page
Nikita Paudel
Founder/Executive Director(she/her)
Nikita is a M.P.P graduate from Yale University. As the founder of Pyari, she oversees its strategic direction, ensuring that its mission aligns with community needs while managing a team and building partnerships to support Pyari’s growth.
Priyanshu Pokhrel
Co Founder/Executive Director(she/her)
Priyanshu is a graduate from Wesleyan University studying Economics and Applied Data Science. With a passion to bridge cultural contexts with modern development, Priyanshu focuses on creating sustainable solutions through Pyari, aiming to promote health literacy worldwide.
Natasha Shakya
Operations and Project Manager(she/her)
Natasha is a Bachelor’s in Development Finance graduate working as an Operations and Project Manager at Pyari Education, where she manages end-to-end project operations, from coordination and logistics to stakeholder communication, and enjoys building partnerships and pulling off events that expand reach and boost visibility.
Anuradha Sharma
Lead, Curriculum and Pedagogy Design(she/her)
Anuradha Sharma, PhD, is a strategic communication professional with nearly eight years of experience in Nepal’s development sector. At Pyari, she leads Naya Paila’s development and scale-up, overseeing teacher training, monitoring and evaluation, and child safeguarding to ensure inclusive, evidence-based, and safe programming.
Anukriti Kunwar
SRHR Strategy and Partnership Lead(she/her)
Anukriti Kunwar is a Nepal-based development practitioner working at the intersection of qualitative research, strategic communication, and program management across gender equality, governance, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues.
Paarth Man Singh Basnyat
HR and Adminstration Manager(he/him)
Paarth is an International business management student at Herald College kathmandu. He is an aspiring HR professional who is passionate about making a difference.