Santa Clara University

Organization: Mountain Children's Foundation (India)
Role: President
Vision: To build global citizenship in children
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting mountain children all over the world.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- Since my participation in the Women Leaders for the World (WLW) 2009 program, the Mountain Children's Foundation has been participating in deliberations for and with children at a national level that impacts national policy.
- Our own team has increased in strength and we have signed meaningful partnerships.

Organization: Indonesian Institute for Energy Economics (Indonesia)
Role: Chairman and Executive Director
Vision: Launching the Electricity Governance Toolkit
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Project Concern International (India)
Role: Project Manager
Vision: To create a "Zero Garbage" world
Inspiring Challenge: To have 350,000 families in Pune segregate their garbage by December 31, 2010.
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Room to Read (India)
Role: State Manager, Uttarakhand
Vision: Gender equality in education
Inspiring Challenge: Enabling girls to have quality education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Training more than 2000 rural women in farm and non farm based business activities

Organization: Association for Social & Environmental Development (India)
Role: Chief Executive Officer
Vision: Youth Nurture Nature and Nature Nurtures Peace
Inspiring Challenge: Create 10,000 Young Green Advocates through the Green Rhinos Program. (by World Environment Day June 5, 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)
Accomplishments:
- I am proud that I was able to set up the organization Association for Social and Environmental Development (ASED), which is reaching out to school students and the public for biodiversity enhancement.
- I was proud when we received the best poster award at the Living Knowledge 2009 Conference in Belfast giving international recognition to our work.

Organization: Afghan Women's Network (Afghanistan)
Role: Former Media and Project Officer
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)

Organization: Social Advancement Through Unity (Bangladesh)
Role: Founder
Vision: Dignity, social justice, and fraternity for women with development
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking (P) Ltd. and Empowering Women of Nepal (Nepal)
Role: Founder and Executive Director
Vision: Creating a path for Nepali sisters to self-empowerment
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Uzbegim Holding (Uzbekistan)
Role: Student and Speaker
Vision: Awareness of democracy and market economies for women in Uzbekistan
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Institute For Development Studies and Practices (Pakistan)
Role: Founding President
Vision: To establish sustainable, community based, family health centers with a focus on safe and healthy child births in rural remote and poor areas of Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: After ten years of separation, I and my family came back together, and I was able to establish 2000 girls schools in Balochistan.

Organization: Kabul University (Afghanistan)
Role: Dean of the Women's Council, Head of Library and Professor of Science
Vision: Begin a Women's Studies Department at Kabul University
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment: Formed a new Women's Center at Kabul University in May 2007

Organization: BAIF Development Research Foundation (India)
Role: Senior Programme Officer
Vision: Rehabilitate tribes on degraded lands and various rural non-farm activities for generating employment for landless families
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Renri LLC (Japan)
Role: Founder and Senior Partner
Vision: Restoring coral reefs in Okinawa
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: World Wide Fund for Nature (Pakistan)
Role: Community Development Officer
Vision: Building ecological and economic security for marginalized mountain people
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Aarti Home (India)
Role: Founder and President
Vision: Ensure that women survive and are empowered to exercise choices over their lives
Inspiring Challenge: Work to fulfill our vision through Aarti Home
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishments:
- All of the girls in Bayanapalli, a nearby village with a previously high dropout rate, are now going to school.
- Aarti Home has been able to expand its tailoring and vocational training programs to women in Kadapa and the surrounding areas.
- Winner of the 2012 Leader of Impact Award with more than 8,000 votes.

Organization: Pahchaan (Pakistan)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Promoting a society free from child abuse
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: R-VISION INTERNATIONAL (Pakistan)
Role: Chief Executive Officer; Development Communication Consultant
Vision: Integrate humanity without biases and without prejudice through the development of media
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Destiny Foundation (India)
Role: Founder & Director
Vision: Liberate victims of trafficking- through sustainable employment and skill and capacity building
Inspiring Challenge: Connecting more survivor women to Destiny and meeting project deadline
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Partnership developed with Hyatt Regency, a global hospitality company having 450 chains, in order to bring awareness on human trafficking.
- Participate in the international Trade Fair at Milan (Italy) to sell products made by Destiny survivors and build awareness.

Organization: UNICEF (India)
Role: Former Anti-Domestic Child Labour Project Coordinator
Vision: Education of children and girls collectives
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (India)
Role: Project Coordinator
Vision: A safer life with zero tolerance to violence for women and children
Inspiring Challenge: By December 2010, create 100 zero tolerance to violence clubs in schools and colleges to teach them the benefits of healthy relationships in their lives.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Room to Read (India)
Role: Country Director
Vision: Create literacy through reading with children in developing societies
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Nagarik Aawaz (Nepal)
Role: Program Manager
Vision: To build the capacity of the conflict affected community, especially the victims (women and youths) of conflicts so that they can be empowered enough to lead the peace initiative actions by themselves in the long run.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Education (2);  Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Seeing, or hearing about, women and youths that I have worked with in the past demonstrating transformational behavior in their feeling and understanding (changing from anger and revenge to forgiveness).
- I feel very delighted when I see conflict affected women and youths working together in a team for social change.

Organization: Documentation Center of Cambodia (Cambodia)
Role: Outreach Staff Member
Vision: Promoting victim participation in genocide trials for national reconciliation
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)