Kuku Das is the Co-founder and President of International Gurukul. She holds a Master degree in literature (English) and was a teacher at a prestigious private school in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than a decade. She has co-founded a program called “Chala Ame Odia Sikhiba”
or “Let's Learn Odia” in the year 2000 which runs very successfully in the San
Francisco Bay Area, California. The mission of this program is to contribute
towards basic education in Odia literacy (the language of state of Odisha, India) and culture for all interested
students thereby enabling them for reading and writing Odia script and also to
stage plays and dance dramas in Odia language to promote creativity and
leadership among children and parents. She has also developed the Odia language curriculum for
the Odia Language class at iGurukul which helps in the learning of Odia in an interesting
way for both children and adults. She has written, directed and acted
in numerous plays for kids and adults. Event management, costume designing, and
stage decoration are also her hobby. She is an active member of Bay Area Odia community and organized several events flawlessly. She was the convener of the 41st OSA (Orissa Society of Americas) convention, in the year 2010. She has received several awards including the OSA Service Leadership Award. Currently she is the vice president of OSA. With her passion, dedication and keeping 'synergy and empowerment'
as her mantra, she takes pride in bringing all various culture and language together and spreading the message of peace and harmony through iGurukul, A Center for Excellence in Learning and Human Development.She is key to the success of International Gurukul with her dynamic personality and dedicated service. |  |
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