Preeti Mann

Preeti Mann trained as a cultural anthropologist and completed her D.Phil from University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is also an alumna of Delhi University. Her research interests include well-being and progress, indigenous communities, modernity and its implications. She has had a chance to work both as a development anthropologist and as an anthropologist of development in India and overseas. She has done stints with international aid organisations, worked at the grassroots and been part of the academia. She co-founded QYON with an intent to operationalise life lessons from the liberal arts, anthropology in particular, in the way we go about leading our day to day lives. The richness of world views from across cultures and wisdom traditions inform her work. Her public talks showcase the alternative worldviews of indigenous communities and how they have helped shape her. She lives in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, in a small village close to Dharamshala and is a natural health science enthusiast.