Atishi Marlena is a leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, and is a member of the Political Affairs Committee of the party. She served as the Advisor to the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, primarily on education, from July 2015 to 17 April 2018, when she was sacked by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, headed by Rajnath Singh. Her removal sparked a backlash on social media against the Centre, after Delhi's Education Minister Manish Sisodia credited her with being the architect of Delhi's education reforms.
Marlena has been appointed as the Lok Sabha in-charge for East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Atishi Marlena was born to Delhi University professors Vijay Kumar Singh and Tripta Wahi on 8th June, 1981. Marlena is a surname derived by her parents from Marx and Lenin.After being raised in Delhi, and finishing high school from Springdale School, Marlena graduated in history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 2001. She was the Delhi University topper for that year. Soon after, she went to the Oxford University for her Master's degree in History on a Chevening scholarship. In 2005 she went to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
Marlena spent some time teaching at Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh before moving to a small village near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. There she was involved with such things as organic farming and progressive education systems, and she worked with several non-profit organisations, such as the Sambhavana Institute of Public Policy. While there she met casually with various members of the AAP, including Prashant Bhushan.
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