Introduction
Irawati Puteri is an incoming graduate student at Stanford Law School, majoring in Law, Science, and Technology. She is the only Indonesian representative this year among 18-21 students in the class.
She works as the Legal and Policy Manager at GovTech Edu, an unprecedented hybrid government-private institution, working directly to assist the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology in building comprehensive Edu-Tech initiatives, empowering millions of teachers and students across Indonesia. She formerly practiced alternative and dispute resolution at a top-tier and highly-regarded law firm in Indonesia. From her notable participation in SejutaCita (No. 1 Edu-app in Indonesia with 2,5 million registered users, which was recently awarded the No. 1 Best App by Google in 2021), her significant experience as an academic tutor, and her present efforts to digitally revolutionize education in Indonesia, she has been showing her unparalleled interest in empowering access to education through various law, policy, and Edu-Tech initiatives.
Outside of her career, she is passionate about feminist legal and marginalized issues. She established EstafetKebaikan in 2018, an effective altruistic organization that funds street children’s education and hosts free soft skills workshops, encouraging them to rediscover their self-worth. She led the production of BukuBaik: Membagi Dimensi Fortuna Senandika (translated into English as Sharing Our Space for the Marginalized), a charity-purposed collaborative artwork compilation to voice gender-based and domestic violence issues. The last is also published in an empowerment-themed poetry podcast–that gained thousands of listeners' attention, helping 300+ marginalized households, tens of orphanages, and MSMEs impacted by Covid-19.
Irawati is a published poet and certified makeup artist. She has demonstrated extensive interest in arts and sports, as she is enrolled in various soft skills classes: aerial hoop dance, pottery, painting, flower arrangement, Japanese cooking, ballet, and padel.
