Aruna is India program director, at Acara, an impact entrepreneurship program at the University of Minnesota. In her role, she helps set up internships and fellowships, works closely with students on their social innovation ideas and business plans, builds both classroom and experiential learning-based capacity building programmes, performs culture-sensitive primary field research, and function as Indian liaison, for logistics-related needs. Aruna has close to 15 years of experience with social innovation, programme management, coordination, capacity building, incubation, cross-cultural linkages, print and online journalism, marketing and corporate communications, and technical documentation, both in India and the USA. She earned my Masters in International Development from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and spent five years in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region, working with nonprofits focused on diaspora relations, cross-cultural competency, and economic development.