Educated overseas, educating less advantaged or underpriviledged at home

Mistri tells Anjuli Bhargava how her experiences and influences as a teenager and young adult shaped the unconventional path she decided to take later on

Starting from the age of 12 and through her teens, she volunteered at Mumbai’s EAR school for hearing and speech impaired children, at the Happy Home and School for the blind, again in Mumbai, at an orphanage for special needs children in Indonesia, worked with autistic youth in New York while interacting with and observing closely children with multiple disabilities because her mother worked in the field.

She studied at a French pre-school in Lebanon, a British and then an international school in Greece, an elementary school in Indonesia and completed her junior high and high school in the US,