Ep. 33: Improving housing for India's urban poor with Rakhi Mehra

From a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford and an MBA at Harvard Business School, to disaster-relief in India, and founding a social enterprise to address India’s housing needs (all while training for triathlons), my latest guest has done it all. Working with an interdisciplinary group of architects, software developers and microfinance experts, Rakhi and her husband Marco Ferrario launched Micro Home Solutions which provides consulting and digital design input to homeowners and NGOs to build better quality and safer housing for urban poor. Hear Rakhi share how she turned her commitment to social impact into a career, what life is like in the lake district of Italy and how she navigates the ups and downs of a social enterprise start-up as a mother of two while teaching students - the full episode is below, on your favorite podcast app, or at www.theindianedit.com and please do subscribe, so you don’t miss an episode! P.S. This episode was recorded March 5, 2020 in the early days of the lockdown in northern Italy, where Rakhi is based.