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Pavithra YS

Pavithra YS

She is the Founder & MD of Vindhya e-Infomedia - an Impact Sourcing BPO since 2006, sets the strategic direction for the company & its portfolio of services to its customers, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive her vision of employing & empowering Persons with Disabilities (PWD), Women & People from the BPL families, rural & disadvantaged sections of the society. Vindhya has been able to create employment opportunity for more than 650 people by employing people with disabilities and women from BPL families. Vindhya is catering a wide range of customers spread out across India servicing its customers in the area of Data processing and Voice processing.

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Swapan Panda

Swapan Panda

General Secretary/Director, Kajla Janakalyan Samity
Working with – Tribal and Rural women and girls, daily wage workers, Women in disasters..

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Manisha Ghule

Manisha Ghule

Secretary, Founder Member of Navchetana Sarvangin Vikas Kendra
Working with : Migrant women workers of sugarcane fields & factories, dalit, single women, adolescents and victims of gender-based violence.

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Dr Santosh Kumar Giri

Dr Santosh Kumar Giri

Executive Director, Kolkata Rista
Working with – Transgender community, Gender and Sexual minority (LGBTH) communities.

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Angana Prasad

Angana Prasad

Executive Director, Project KHEL
Working with - Youth Leaders like adolescent girls & women including men and a whole range of menstruators like Transmen, women with disabilities.

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Dr Smriti Singh

Dr Smriti Singh

State Programme Director, Mahila Samakhya, Uttar Pradesh
Working with - Rural women and Adolescent girls

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Vishal Talreja

Vishal Talreja

Vishal Talreja is an Educator and Social Entrepreneur. He co-founded Dream a Dream (www.dreamadream.org) along with 11 others. Dream a Dream is a registered, charitable trust empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in the 21st century using a creative life skills approach. Currently, works with 10,000 young people a year and has trained over 35,000 teachers/educators impacting over 875,000 children and young people and impact over 3+ Million children through various state government partnerships.
Vishal has co-authored 4-research papers with Dr David Pearson and Dr. Fiona Kennedy related to Life Skills in the Indian context and has written a host of articles, white papers, policy briefs related to Education Transformation. He has also co-authored a book, ‘When We Thrive, Our World Thrives’ along with Dr Connie K Chung and Dream a Dream staff and participants. He has also published a book of poems called, ‘My Soul Stirring’.
Vishal is an Ashoka Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow and a Salzburg Global Fellow . He is a Board Member at Goonj. Previously been the Founder Director of Unltd India and Board Member of PYE Global and India Cares Foundation. He is the Executive Committee Member of Karanga – The Global Alliance on Life Skills and SEL and Cofounder of The Weaving Lab. Vishal has been recognized as an “Architect of the Future” by the Waldzell Institut in Austria and as ‘Innovator of the Year’ in 2019 by HundrED. In 2023, Vishal also founded a new initiative called The Cocoon Initiative designed to support civil society leaders in India to take a sabbatical.
He also mentors and advises a host of emerging social entrepreneurs and changemakers while contributing to global education narratives through participation in various steering committees and working groups with the likes of WISE, G20, Catalyst 2030, Big Change and OECD.

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Saloni Malhotra

Saloni Malhotra

A true entrepreneur at heart, Saloni began her career with WebChutney, an interactive media agency after completing her engineering from Pune University. Soon after, she embarked on a journey in the social space and founded Desi Crew, a for-profit BPO focused on creating knowledge-based livelihood opportunities in towns and rural areas. After receiving national and international acclaim for her innovative work with Desi Crew, in March 2012 she stepped down as the CEO, though she continues to be on its Board. After a brief sabbatical where she pursued her academic interests, Saloni became a part of Paytm to build new business units within Paytm.
She also set up Reboot Wellness, an ecosystem for mental health and wellness in Gurgaon. Saloni’s entrepreneurial skills, innovative mindset and generous heart have also meant that she serves as an advisor to startups in different genres like Traveler Kids & Local Community.
Exchange Empowerment Trust (LOKALEX). Saloni is an Aspen India Leadership Initiative Fellow for 2015 and an Aspire Circle Fellow.

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