Shilpi Niyogi

Shilpi Niyogi is Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s inaugural senior director of communications. Shilpi works with Ascend’s diverse community of leaders to elevate and illuminate our collective impact for children and families. 

Shilpi’s career focuses on advancing prosperity and positive social change as globalization and digital innovations reshape how we live and work. She brings two decades of executive experience in the education sector. Prior to joining Ascend, as Pearson’s SVP for Global Corporate Affairs and Marketing, Shilpi helped transform the international media conglomerate into the world’s learning company. Earlier at ETS, she helped the nonprofit expand its horizons beyond admissions testing to serve learners in new markets. Shilpi served on the inaugural Advisory Board for former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher college access initiative as well as as Vice Chair of the Board of Visitors for University of Maryland’s College of Education. 

Born in London and raised in South Jersey, Shilpi is a first-generation American immigrant from an Indian family with deep roots in education, advocacy, and the arts. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She lives in Washington, DC, and thoroughly enjoys the arts in all its forms in our nation’s capital.

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