Dr. Anindita Chatterjee is a Clinical Psychologist, a Post doctoral scholar in Roehampton University, London and Fontys University, Netherlands, working in Kolkata for the last 25 years in the field of education , inclusion and integrated curriculum. She is attached to the Peerless hospital, as Coordinator of child guidance clinic, Apollo clinic, Gariahat and Institute of child health. She is secretary and founder of Roopkatha Foundation which works majorly in rural areas in kaikala village in Tarkeshwar enabling children of brick fields labourers and farmers. She is the founder of Star Mission Academy, where she encourages the school dropouts and differently abled children to remain in the mainstream and she has created many success stories .She is the recipient of Erasmus Mundus scholarship and Australian Endeavour award. She has been a huge support to Umeed initiatives since its inception and shares the vision and mission of Umeed walking the path of advocacy and counselling with Mrs. Salony Priya for years.

Principal, Kerala Samajam Model School, Jamshedpur, 2003 onwards till date.

She as an educator with 33 years of experience has extensive outreach as an education leader, mentor and believes in positive counselling. A true Umeed foundation champion guiding and integrating Umeed Foundation vision with every strata of society. She inculcated the culture of global curriculum in school by collaborating with British Council under the UKIERI (United Kingdom- India Educational Research Initiative) programme for three years from 2008 to 2011. During her tenure as a principal the school was awarded the International School award in 2010. School also Won the J J Irani award for excellence in education.
A trainer on Parenting & Winning Relationship for employees of Tata Steel, formulation of Road Safety Manual used by all schools, providing training on Class room Management, Error Analysis, Parent training and counseling. Has been as assessor for many schools for excellence in education programme conducted by Tata Steel.
She was awarded Teacher of the Year by Dainik Bhaskar& by Lions Club in 2008. She won NCERT Award for a project on STRESS TO WELLNESS and design for change award for the project BCOZ WE CARE. International School Award by British Council, Samagra Shiksha Empowering India Award 2020 - 1st school in Jharkhand, International School Award for the year 2019-2022

Dr. Shikha Sahai has an experience of more than 22 years in Corporate HR, Consulting, Training, Action Research, Mentoring and Teaching in India and Oman, associated with BITS Pilani, India and Goa Institute of Management, India, Salala University Oman . She is an educationist at the core, with a blend of business and coaching mentoring skills, an exceptional trainer who blends education and business ethics with her experience proficiently . She as an advisor is a guiding light for UF projects and provides immense value with her philanthropic zeal. She is an M.B.A. and Ph.D. by qualification. She is currently working as Human Resource Business Partner with Sundaram Finance Limited. Her last assignment was as an Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Salalah, Oman. Prior to that, she was in corporate roles as Head – Plant HR with Tata Metaliks Limited, Kharagpur, India . She has been designing out of the box trainings with Door Training and Consulting, Gurgaon, India as Consultant Trainer where she coached CEO of multinational and national companies (like Aditya Birla group, Vodafone, Tata Motors, Punjab National Bank etc.). She has co-authored a book on Entrepreneurship and has published several research articles and case studies in international journals.

Dr. Rekha Nariwal is an associate professor in Education department of the Bhawanipur Education Society College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta and specialises in education perspectives related to Gender and Quality. Dr. Nariwal has also worked for the SCERT as a Research Coordinator , to conduct empirical research and organise teacher training workshops for secondary and higher secondary school teachers. She has a keen interest in writing, contributed to several reputed journals, and has worked as a PhD Examiner for Utkal, Ravenshaw, North Orissa, and B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University since 2014.She has designed audio-visual aids for resource centres to be used for teacher training programmes, as her contribution to DPEP, an initiative by the Govt. of India. An educationist with deep interest in mentoring youth, has been supporting Umeed foundation positive psychology approach of creating mental health awareness.