Agasthya Shenoy is an educator, researcher, and innovator obsessed with finding ways to use technology to strengthen teachers’ skills and enhance human-to-human relationships. These are fundamentally issues of equity: successful solutions in this space will necessarily positively impact educators and students from marginalized communities the most.

Agasthya is currently Director of Research and Learning at CityBridge Education, where he leads organization strategy for bleeding-edge technologies, impact measurement, and continuous improvement. Prior to CityBridge, Agasthya was a Research Data Scientist at the Harvard Advances in Learning Research Group, where he investigated innovative pedagogical frameworks for online learning and led the curriculum development for a suite of case-based data science courses for Harvard Business School Online.

Agasthya began his career in education as a Teach For America corps member in New Orleans. He eventually moved on to serve as a Program Manager with New Schools for New Orleans, where he coached teachers and leaders in pedagogy and change management, analyzed city-wide achievement data, and developed programs to increase college readiness for high school students in New Orleans.

Agasthya holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an Ed.M in Technology, Innovation, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.