Apoorva Baheti is a joint MPP-MBA candidate at Yale with four years of experience in nonprofit strategy, evaluation, and financing for impact. Before Yale, as a manager at Pratham International, she led monitoring and evaluation teams for large-scale primary education programs in Nigeria and Zambia. Before that, she managed field research at J-PAL South Asia to evaluate the impact of social welfare programs in rural India through randomized controlled trials. In both roles, she supported local partners to generate and use data to strengthen implementation.

At Yale, Apoorva has explored how donors shape incentives and behaviors in the impact space, and how venture philanthropy shifts power by centering lived experience and community priorities. Through internships with Lever for Change and the American India Foundation, she has worked on fundraising strategy and organizational positioning to connect funding with purpose and direct it towards what matters most.

Apoorva holds a BSc in economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and is an associate of the Institute of Actuaries of India. Her training gives her analytical rigor, but she is guided by empathy and listening. She is especially interested in building teams that can navigate complexity, and she approaches impact as a product: designed with intention, responsive to how people behave, and sustainably creating value.