Balchander Jayaraman

Mr. Jayaraman is currently President of Strategic Education Consulting, LLC, a minority-owned small business in the District of Columbia. His company creates emergency response and evacuation plans and training for District government agencies, schools, and residential buildings, as well as business continuity plans for private companies, and non-profits. He has specialized expertise in planning for the safe sheltering and evacuation of people with disabilities.

Before starting his own company in 2010, Mr. Jayaraman was Project Director at Inclusion Research Institute, a non-profit research organization. He managed projects that increased employment opportunities for people with disabilities, increased voter participation in elections, and improved the preparedness of people nationwide through the development of an innovative Fire-safety planner and Readiness Action planner.

Outside of work, Mr. Jayaraman has a distinctive track record as a civic activist, an elected official, and a top candidate in the DC Council At-Large race in 2020. He recently completed serving his fifth term as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) 6B, representing the Capitol Hill/Hilleast areas of Ward 6. He currently serves as an alumni board representative of Jenkins Hill Child Development Center, and DC Doors, a local non-profit that helps people secure permanent, stable housing. He is on the board of Capitol Hill Little League and also serves as an Umpire for the League.

Mr. Jayaraman was born in Bangalore, India and moved to Overland Park, KS at the age of ten. He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School the University of Kansas. He moved to the District of Columbia in 1995 and lives in Ward 6 with his wife and son.