Associate Director, India

Background

I believe that durable change is built on trust, empathy, and a people-first focus. That conviction has shaped over a decade of building mission-driven organisations.

My journey started by co-founding Asmat, a youth-run NGO that connected urban youth to realities in rural India while at Delhi University. Asmat organised volunteer programs for 200+ college students working on governance, financial inclusion, gender, and education issues. Soon after my Masters in International and Development Economics at Yale University, I joined Good Business Lab as the first employee, scaling a nonprofit that impacted over 2 million blue-collar workers worldwide across gender, health, work environment, and other worker well-being programs in the global fashion, retail and automotive value chains. Parallelly, I co-founded Sustainable Style Speak (SUSS), building India's first sustainable fashion community that connected over 1000 people working in or interested in this space. I've been engaged in the impact start-up ecosystem through UNLEASH, UN Women, and UNDP as a participant or mentor over the years, and particularly enjoy the chaotic and rewarding early-stage space of new ideas.

Alongisde my role at Forum, I also serve on the Advisory Board of Fashion for Good's Future Forward Factories Initiative, looking at integrating labour considerations into carbon reduction pathways in the apparel sector, with a focus on making connections to emerging capital pathways in the sector.

My dream project

I'd love to build something in the women's health space - there's still so much research and advocacy to do on issues such as endometriosis, PMOS, adenomyosis to improve the daily lives of those who menstruate. As someone with lived experience, this is an issue close to my heart. I would love to imagine a future where women’s pain and health issues are not systematically ignored.

What floats my boat outside work?

I love to read, spend time with my cat, and explore a city's history! Moving my body through yoga, dance or strength training often helps me clear my head.