My purpose in life is to lead people to find their own voice and achieve their dreams by unleashing their potential. I am currently experimenting with this through Buzz Women as the co-founder since 2012 (building human and social capital) and as the Director of Avantika Foundation (building civic muscle) since 2019.

Buzz Women enable rural women by making knowledge, skills and tools available at the doorsteps of these women towards economic, social, personal and ecological empowerment. The women who go through our intervention have inculcated a savings habit (79%), participate in household decision making (69%), demonstrating confidence (67%), expand their enterprises (69%), and actively participate in community discussion (28%). Buzz has reached 350,000 women in the last 10 years with 8000 women community volunteers in 7 districts of Karnataka. They have also been able to franchise the model to The Gambia and Georgia. They aim to reach 10 million women by 2030 in all 30 districts of Karnataka. Avantika Foundation is at its nascent stage of building the civic muscle towards community problem solving.

I graduated B.com, ICWAI and have a Diploma in Youth in Development. Apart from discovering social change I am also a daughter, a wife, a mother of two kids, recovering self proclaimed OCD, planned traveler, pretend optimist, determined organizer, trained singer, crafts hog, enthusiastic polyglot and an amateur interior designer.