Shruti is a Managing Partner at New Profit, where she leads the organization’s work in ecosystem building and education. In this role she drives 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 joined New Profit in 2006 while in graduate school. Prior to that, 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 and later in a series of quality management positions at Howmet Castings and Jabil Circuit. 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 change, Shruti is a meditation coach and enjoys being a playful cook and baker.