Hemant is Co-Founder of Art of Play (AOP), an organization that ensures every child’s right to play. AOP has merged with ELMS Sports, an organization with the same vision. At ELMS, Hemant heads government engagements and works for integrating play in public education through curricular innovation and teacher training. Before AOP, Hemant conceptualized & led a sports-for-development project, Play2Lead for the internally displaced population across the western coast of Gujarat. Hemant is a former Gandhi Fellow and has been awarded Wipro’s Founder Fellowship & Changeloom Fellowship.