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About Carnegie Corporation
Ambika Kapur
Program Associate
Journalism Initiative and Dissemination Program
Ambika Kapur is a program associate for the Corporation's Journalism Initiative, which is concerned with revitalizing journalism education in the United States. This program is centered on helping journalism schools experiment with their curriculum in ways that will both improve journalism education and initiate dialogue with other journalism educators across the country.
Kapur also serves as program associate in the Dissemination Program. In this role, she focuses on developing successful strategies for amplifying and reinforcing the Corporation's grantmaking and institutional goals. She does this by proactively seeking, developing and recommending for funding and administering projects in the program area that include special initiatives and strategic communications projects and capacity-building programs to advance the work of Corporation grantees.
Upon joining the Corporation's Public Affairs Office in 2001, Kapur managed media relations as well as targeted outreach for all the Corporation's publications. She also organized and continues to manage a series of technical assistance programs for the Corporation's grantees in Africa.
Prior to coming to the Corporation, Kapur worked at the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Resource Center at the Education Development Center in Boston where she did quantitative and qualitative research on educational equity issues, both within the U.S. and internationally. She also designed and managed all technical assistance and support to grantees of the WEEA Program funded by the U.S. Department of Education; moderated EDEQUITY, an international e-mail listserv designed to encourage discussion about gender equality and education among practioners, policymakers, teachers and students. She worked with the Center Director to research funding opportunities and develop project proposals aimed at strengthening nontraditional career opportunities for immigrant women.
Kapur was born in Calcutta. She has a BA in International Relations from Wellesley College and a MA in International Affairs from Columbia University.
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