Anumula Rama has a Masters and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Andhra Pradesh. She, along with her husband Anantha Padmanabha Rao Yerravalli, is the Co-director of Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RiVER), Krishnamurti Foundation India. They are both fellows of Ashoka International and the Khemka Foundation. They are co-winners of the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurs of the Year award for India at the India Economic Summit 2009.