Ravi
Gupta

Building Schools

29, New York, New York

Ravi Gupta, a Building Excellent Schools Fellow (www.buildingexcellentschools.org), is the Lead Founder and proposed Executive Director for Nashville Prep (www.nashvilleprep.org). Mr. Gupta recently served as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations. He previously spent two years working for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign – joining then-Senator Obama’s exploratory committee and working through the primary and general elections. He ran fundraising, voter registration, and voter turnout operations in over a half dozen states during the primary election and served as assistant to Chief Strategist David Axelrod during the general election.

Prior to joining Obama for America, Mr. Gupta served as the Director of Development of Orphans or Rwanda, an organization that provides comprehensive educational support to children in Rwanda orphaned by the 1994 genocide and/or HIV/AIDS. He also founded the Atuu International Scholarship Fund in 2003 to establish scholarships for children in Ghana, West Africa to attend high school and college.

Mr. Gupta received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2009, where he was a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and his B.A. from Binghamton University.