Deepti Singh is a recent master’s graduate of International Peace Studies from Soka University, Japan. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Technology in Computer Science major from Vidya College of Engineering, Uttar Pradesh in 2012. Post her engineering, she worked with the leading healthcare company – The United Health Group (UHG) for five years as a Software Tester and parallelly played a pivotal role in the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) sector of UHG. She has worked alongside several NGOs which focus on imparting education and character building for the less privileged kids in Gurugram, Haryana.

As a master’s student at Soka University, Deepti’s research was focused on “Global Citizenship Education as an educational priority to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”. Since August 2019, she has been working as a Global Schools Program Advocate in Japan which is an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network of Youth. As an advocate, she has been facilitating programmes with schools in Japan to implement SDG education and Global Citizenship Education. She is also trained as a Climate Reality Leader by the former US Vice President Al Gore as a part of his project ‘Climate Reality Project – Tokyo’.

Deepti has been working as a freelance facilitator to provide mentoring and facilitation across a series of workshops online as part of the Beyond Skin Peace IV programme ‘Blueprint’ since August 2020. Blueprint is Building Positive Relations Cultural Diversity Programme that works across the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council areas in Northern Ireland supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).

She is currently working as an ALT (Assistant Language Trainer) at a school based in Tokyo, Japan. She uses English as a medium of instruction to teach about SDGs, peace and sustainability.

Participant in: January/February 2022 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes