Meet our Founders
Prerna Srivastava, Founder & Executive Director, former Philly Elementary Principal, Harvard doctoral candidate
Prerna, mother of the 3 beautiful Zs, proud daughter of immigrants, was born in Patna, Bihar, in her grandfather’s clinic, her childhood spent picking mangoes and guavas in her Nana and Nani’s garden and splashing through monsoon rain puddles in Mumbai. Prerna’s commitment to service and social justice comes from her Nana, who dedicated his life to serving poor patients in Patna, and named her Prerna, or “inspiration” in Hindi.
Prerna has been an educator for the past 20 years - from international NGOs in India and Rwanda, spanning training women’s microfinance groups to building curricula for HIV nurses, to formal K- 12 education in NYC, Philly, and Camden, serving urban public school districts for the past 12 years as a high school science teacher, elementary school principal, and head of elementary schools.
Prerna is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at Harvard, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Anoop Raman, Founder & Advisor, Family Doctor & Chief Medical Officer
Anoop is the son of immigrants and father of 3 beautiful children, collectively known as ZuZaZe. His parents, Hindu and Catholic from Bangalore and Kerala, fell in love and eloped to Queens, NY, where he was born. He is a family doctor and physician leader who specializes in caring for populations with complex medical and social needs. Since joining AbsoluteCare as Chief Medical Officer, he has helped lead the growth of the care model as it serves the holistic needs of thousands of vulnerable individuals in each of the communities they serve. Additionally, Anoop is a member of the faculty at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, teaching courses on global health, in particular — teaching courses on how to put public health principles into everyday practice to serve high needs populations.
He is passionate not only about delivering on the mission of health equity — providing concierge level care to the people who need it most — but also about developing the next generation of impassioned, mission-driven clinicians.
