ARNAV SINHA

What inspired you to join Mountaintop?

"Mountaintop's focus on blending elite level performance (head) with genuine empathy and care (heart) inspired me to join this wonderful team."

Arnav Sinha is a systems-change architect who builds the human infrastructure needed for communities to flourish. At Mountaintop, he designs transformational leadership experiences that strengthen Fellows' right abilities, relationships, and power to create lasting impact in their home communities.Arnav has spent the last 13 years as a trainer, educator, program manager, and director in the development sector in India and worldwide.

A bridge-builder between grassroots wisdom and institutional change, Arnav's accomplishments include:

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• Engineering West Bengal's first public-private partnership for street-connected children's education at EkTara.

• Scaling a global fellowship at United People Global to 6,500+ applicants across 159 countries and territories.

• Training 75+ deaf educators in India and Bangladesh in inclusive leadership practices at Deaf Child Worldwide.

Holding an MA in Development Studies, Arnav is fluent in the languages of both marginalized communities (Bengali, Hindi) and institutional stakeholders. He is also trained in Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

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Arnav's favorite quote: “The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light." - James Baldwin

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Arnav can be contacted at arnav.sinha@mountaintop.international.