Worrin has over seven years of experience in the development and corporate sector across 4 countries in Europe and Asia. He is the Founder and Director of STEP North-East which is a non profit that focuses on bridging the opportunity and education gap between the urban and rural areas in North-East India. Since its inception in 2020, STEP has reached out to 6000+ students across 40+ schools and colleges in Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. STEP has also conducted 60+ workshops across these 4 states. STEP’s flagship program, STEP Fellowship which is an employability program for indigenous women has successfully placed 70% of its graduates in various jobs across different sectors in India and abroad.

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Worrin is also a Young India Fellow, a liberal arts postgraduate Fellowship delivered in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, King’s College London, Sciences Po Paris, University of California Berkeley and Yale University. Worrin completed his Master’s in Development Studies, specializing in Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, in The Hague, Netherlands, on a fully funded scholarship from the Government of India. While at the Hague, he was also selected as one of the 30 participants from around the world for the Peacemakers 2016 Workshop/Conference on “Migration and Securitization of Europe : Views from the Balkan Corridor”, organized by Koc University, Istanbul in collaboration with the University of Kent.

Prior to setting up STEP, Worrin was the Head of Marketing/Outreach and Senior Programme Manager at The Naropa Fellowship. Worrin has also worked with Leaders’ Quest as a Program Coordinator and has been a part of three successful Quests in Romania, Malaysia and China. Previously, Worrin worked with N-Sight Consulting, a Think Tank specializing in the sphere of social policy and electoral behavior, where he successfully headed their North East India project enabling their client to emerge as the single largest party in the state election. Worrin has also worked with Amnesty International India in their “Undertrials Project” where he and his team successfully investigated the causes of excessive undertrial detention in the Indian prison system and campaigned for systemic change in the criminal justice system. They successfully published their findings in a report titled, “Justice Under Trial: A Study of Pre-trial Detention in India”.