Mrs. Shinde completed her bachelor’s in economics from Siddharth College, Maharashtra, and master’s in social work from Indira Gandhi National Open University. She has a Diploma in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Mrs. Shinde is highly experienced in the field of development in various sectors, such as community mobilisation, advocacy, trainings, networking and linkages, and programme implementation, operationalisation, and monitoring. She has expertise in managing nutritional and cancer project activities in the community level and networking with local stakeholders from various government bodies and departments. She has been working as an assistant programme manager and health educator with the Reliance Foundation. Her passion of proactively serving the underprivileged has made success stories of patients who would otherwise have been lost from the system.