Snehal Rawal

Snehal Rawal (she/her) is an education researcher committed to reimagining how learning can be responsive to the lived realities of communities facing displacement, crisis, and structural marginalization. At Project Zero, she supports research on The Open Canopy (formerly Out of Eden Learn), with a focus on designing culturally and linguistically responsive learning environments. She also works on global education and policy initiatives through Massachusetts General Hospital and as a Center for International Development Fellow with UNICEF’s regional office in Chile. 

Her career spans more than a decade across Asia and Latin America, where she has helped shape multilingual curriculum and national education strategies reaching over five million learners. Beginning at the British Council and most recently contributing to India’s Ministry of Education, her work continues to center collaboration, community-led learning, and equitable systems change. 

Snehal earned her Ed.M. in Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Global, International, and Comparative Education. While at HGSE, she chaired the First Generation Student Affinity Group, contributed to social-emotional learning research through the EASEL Lab and Project Zero, and co-founded an after-school initiative focused on trauma-responsive learning. 

She is dedicated to co-creating education systems that not only include, but actively honor, the languages, identities, and agency of all learners.