Joan DeJaeghere, associate professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) worked with Aditi Arur (CIDE alumnus) to complete baseline interviews with 60 young girls and their parents, who participate in a life skills program that Room to Read implements in Ajmer, Rajasthan. The baseline qualitative data is part of a 3-year study with colleagues, Jessica Leight (Williams College) and Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), India, funded by the Department of Labor. The research seeks to answer the question of whether life skills training and mentoring by older female role models, denoted “social mobilizers,” can affect girls progress through and completion of secondary school, lower their rates of participation in child labor, and enhance their non-cognitive skills.