Dr Rashmi Kumar is a Learning Specialist in STEM and works at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. She develops active learning and technology-driven learning programmed in STEM fields.
She earned her bachelors in science and bachelors in education from the University of Delhi and taught science to middle- and high-school students in New Delhi.
Thereafter, she earned a doctorate from University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She has been recognized as a STEM Educator by the NASA Endeavor Project.
Her research, publications and presentations are primarily focused on teacher education, successful transitions from school to college, STEM-focused education and assessments, and learning technologies.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask god, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night' so you're a woman, you're 30-something and living in India? So what's the big deal about it? Well, if you're all of the above and still unmarried or married previously and you just don't seem to find the "right" man, you suddenly acquire a tragically special status as being cynical, demanding, impractical and chronically single or ambitious. In Hooked, Lined & Single, Alafia Singh meets a similar fate on her journey to find a husband using somewhat more traditional methods.