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Medhavi Gandhi: Championing Open Knowledge in India

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Medhavi Gandhi mentoring a volunteer at the Heritage Lab (photo by Sumita Roy Dutta , CC BY-SA 4.0). Following our series of interviews with Wikimedian gender organizers, we, from the project Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality , spoke with Medhavi Gandhi (New Delhi,  1986, Pronouns She/Her). Medhavi is an independent cultural practitioner working to build public access to cultural knowledge through editorial practice, research, institutional partnerships, and projects that bring collections, research, and stories to wider audiences. She founded The Heritage Lab , a platform for experimenting with how museum collections and cultural knowledge are presented, shared, and experienced online. Previously, Medhavi founded the Happy Hands Foundation, an organization that worked with artisan communities to foster youth and public engagement with traditional arts.…

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