Anirban Bhattacharyya is a partner at Transcend, a nonprofit that supports communities to create and spread extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Anirban supports schools on their innovation journey through R&D cycles and works with his colleagues on knowledge and data management projects.
Before joining Transcend, Anirban was a consultant/contractor with CA Group, Relay Graduate School of Education, LEAP Innovations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Leading Educators. Anirban spent many years working at the KIPP charter school network, first as a math and special education teacher and director of instructional technology at KIPP Chicago and then as the national digital learning director at KIPP Foundation. Anirban began his career as a high school science and special education teacher in Saint Louis Public Schools with Teach For America after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BA in Philosophy and Political Science.
