Harshit Rakheja

About Harshit Rakheja

I\'m a former journalist who has since transitioned to the social impact and policy communications space. In my present role, I work as Manager, Content & Communications at Foundation for Economic Development (FED), a non-profit that works with state governments, providing them with directional and strategic guidance for advancing economic growth. In my last role at Change.org India, I worked with everyday citizens and helped grow their petitions into full-fledged online campaigns to drive social impact. As a Campaigner, I\'d leverage emails, news and social media, my experience as a journalist in polishing these petitions to make them palatable for a wider audience, and our team\'s ability and perseverance in getting a response from decision-makers. By doing this, we\'d help our petition starters amplify their cause and give them the best possible chance of achieving impact. When I wasn\'t working on campaigns, I\'d be writing about the issues that were being debated on the Change.org platform, through op-eds and long-form stories for various digital news outlets. I\'ve shared my work on Firstpost, Inc42, Business Standard, The Quint, The Hindu, The Telegraph India, The Wire, Maktoob Media, The Mooknayak, The Citizen, Outlook Traveller and Outlook Business.

Experience

1. Manager - Content & Communications

   Foundation For Economic Development

   Jan 2024 — Present · New Delhi, IN

   Building a content-production and dissemination practice for FED, a non-profit that works with the Centre and state governments across the value chain of reform to help them generate employment and revenue.I manage the end-to-end production and distribution of external communications products such as the monthly newsletter and our podcast, Growth Is Good (earlier FED Dialogues), featuring conversations about the many perspectives on India’s economic growth trajectory. Contribute to FED’s research outputs such as case studies, helping add human-interest narratives to stories of labour-intensive manufacturing.Oversee the relationship with our PR agency to generate favourable news media coverage for FED.Author op-eds to help bring FED\'s ideas on economic policy issues into the mainstream.

Education

• Delhi Public School Noida

  Senior Secondary School Certificate (10+2)

  2014 — 2015

• Delhi University

  B.A. Honours in Humanities and Social Sciences

  2015 — 2018

• O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)

  Master of Arts - MA

  2023 — 2025

• Xavier Institute Of Communications

  PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication

  2018 — 2019