The vartaLeap Coalition Members

vartaLeap has 145 Coalition Members | 64 Organizations | 19 States

Vartaleap Member Profiles
A. 102 Members in institutional capacity
B. 43 Members in personal  capacity

Executive Director
CEO
General Secretary
Senior Manager
CEO
Youth Work and Campaign Specialist
Associate Director
Programme Coordinator (Lead Fundraising and Narratives)
Honorary Director
Programme Coordinator
Sr. Manager
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CEO
Associate Director
Co-Founder
Secretary
Co-creator
Co-Founder & Member
Co-founder, Pravah and
Executive Director
Founder & Director
Deputy Director at CSIP Ashoka University
Core Team Member
School Social Worker
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Project Director
Chief of Adolescent Development and Generation Unlimited
Executive Director
Executive Director
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Director
Director
Director
President
Youth Development Thematic lead
CEO
Co-Founder
Associate coordinator
Co-Founder
Team Member, Learning Voyages
Founder and Executive Director
Convener
Founder Director
Head - Education & Youth
Manager of Education Program and Partnerships
Associate Alumni engagement and youth networking
Trustee
Head of Social Policy Development
Director of Fundraising & Partnerships
Founder and CEO
President
Co-Founder
Founder & Convener
Sr. Programme Coordinator Accounts and Admin
Founder Director
CEO and Cofounder
Program Lead
Co-founder and Co-director
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Founder
Independent Consultant
Program Coordinator
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Co-founder
Managing Trustee
Founder, Gen WE
Founder and CEO
Senior Associate Coordinator
Executive Director
Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
Founder Director
Founder Trustee
Director, Ecosystem Development
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Founder and CEO
Chief Curator - Catalyst 2030 - NASE
Manager Strategic Partnerships
Co-Founder
Founder
Co-Founder & CEO
Project Director, Green Hub Project.
Founder
CEO
Founder
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CEO
Co-Founder and Strategic Consultant
FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Co-founder, Sahayog Foundation
Lead - Narratives and Visibility
Program Lead - Youth For Change
Fellow, Project Second Chance
Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
President & CEO
Member
Co-Founder
CEO
CEO
Founder, President
CEO & Founder
Chief Coordinator Oasis Movement Delhi
Founder & Chief Executive
Vartaleap Board Member and Mitra Sahayogi
Executive Director
Manager, Fundraising & Visibility
Consultant
Programme Coordinator

Adil Shah

Associate Director - Outreach

ILSS - India Leaders for Social Sector

Adil Shah

Associate Director - Outreach

ILSS - India Leaders for Social Sector

I am a passionate academic administrator and communicator. From the Young India Fellowship to ISDM, and Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, I have rich experience working at the student interface of new-age innovative pedagogies.
Over the years, I have acquired skills in communication, content creation, management, and educational administration. I hold a Master’s degree in Mass Communication/ Media Studies from the University of Kashmir. My film, Life on Wheels was recognised as the best film at Verite Film Festival.

Amitabh Behar

Amitabh Behar

Amitabh Behar, Chief Executive Officer of Oxfam India, is a global civil society leader, and an authority on tackling economic and gender inequality and building citizen participation.

Anahit Minassian

Executive Director- KASA Foundation

Anahit Minassian

Executive Director- KASA Foundation

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Aruna Pandey

Faculty, Development Leadership

ISDM

Aruna Pandey

Faculty, Development Leadership

ISDM

Aruna comes with deep engagement in domains of Natural Resource Governance, Institution Building and Sustainable Livelihoods. In her 13 years of experiencing and co-creating social change with communities, Aruna has worked with institutions like BRLF, an autonomous society of Ministry of Rural Development - Government of India, TISS (Mumbai), SOAS - University of London, IIM - Ahmedabad, ISAP (New Delhi), on projects supported / in partnership with IDRC, UNDP, UNEP, InfoDev, UNV, etc.

Ashish Khetan

Ashish Khetan

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Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Makwana is born and brought up in Sara village of surendranagar district in Gujarat. After completing his Masters, he joined Gandhi Fellowship to explore and get exposure of the ground reality in order to part the gap of theoretical knowledge and experiential learning. During this journey he has been a part of projects and events like Quality in Education through E-Smart Class, Environment Exhibition and creation of a teaching module for EVS teachers.

Asim Siddiqui

Assistant Professor

Asim Siddiqui

Assistant Professor

Asim Siddiqui, a faculty member at Azim Premji University in India, specializes in Philosophy and Development Studies. His research focus centers on humanizing access to education and health to foster democracy and nurture a compassionate society. Asim actively collaborates with various youth-focused organizations, facilitating critical thinking and emotional capacity-building workshops while addressing issues of social justice.

Avinash Kumar

Avinash Kumar

A Ph.D. in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kumar is currently Director of Programmes and Policy at WaterAid India. Blending academics with activism, Kumar worked earlier with Oxfam and did a post-doctoral fellowship at School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Biraj Patnaik

Executive Director, National Foundation of India (NFI)

Biraj Patnaik

Executive Director, National Foundation of India (NFI)

Biraj Patnaik is Executive Director, National Foundation of India and was Amnesty International's South Asia Director. He was formerly the Principal Adviser to the Commissioners of the Indian Supreme Court in the Right to food case for close to a decade. A well known human rights activist in India and abroad, his work has largely been in Economic, Culture Social and Cultural rights (ESCR) over the past two decades.

Chaki Shahid Hamid

Chaki Shahid Hamid

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Eva Wallensteiner

Project Co-ordinator, DKA Austria

Eva Wallensteiner

Project Co-ordinator, DKA Austria

Eva Wallensteiner is a theatre anthropologist, specialized on popular performing arts of India and a dramatic advisor. Since 1987 she visits India regularly for her studies, research on the impact of performing arts and as project coordinator in the social field. She was teaching in universities and worked in different theatre projects in Austria, France, Japan and India. Since 2004 she works as project coordinator for DKA Austria.

Kartik Kakar

Kartik Kakar

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Khushboo Awasthi

COO and Co-founder

ShikshaLokam

Khushboo Awasthi

COO and Co-founder

ShikshaLokam

A management professional turned education enthusiast, Khushboo is the Chief Operating Officer of ShikshaLokam. She also co-founded Mantra4Change in 2013. Khushboo has 12+ years of diverse experience in education and healthcare domain across product development, project management, program design, community engagement and technology. She is the recipient of Women Transforming India Awards 2021 instituted by NITI Aayog to celebrate women contributions towards a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’, is part of BW Education 40 Under 40 Power List 2022.

Manak Matiyani

Executive Director

The YP Foundation

Manak Matiyani

Executive Director

The YP Foundation

Manak is a feminist queer activist and the Executive Director of The YP Foundation (TYPF). His work is aimed at facilitating young people's feminist and rights based leadership on issues of gender justice, sexuality rights, health equity, violence prevention and inclusive education.

Naghma Mulla

CEO

Edel Give Foundation

Naghma Mulla

CEO

Edel Give Foundation

Naghma Mulla, COO and Board member of EdelGive Foundation is a Chartered Accountant and Masters in Commerce.
Over the last eight years, Naghma has enabled growth and scale of EdelGive’s model of collaborative philanthropy.

Nasreen Jamal

International Center for Research on Women

Nasreen Jamal

International Center for Research on Women

PhD in Sociology and at present associated with ICRW working in the capacity of Chief of Project for Umang project for empowering girls to end child marriages in Jharkhand, supported by IKEA Foundation. Has been working in the development sector for over 20 years on issues like Women empowerment, Child protection, Sexual & Reproductive health, Education & Social Inclusion and Livelihoods.

P Sivakumar Babu

Head i/c, Department of Development Studies

P Sivakumar Babu

Head i/c, Department of Development Studies

Dr P. Sivakumar, faculty and Head of Centre for Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Analysis (CMEIA), RGNIYD and Head i/c of the Department of Development Studies, RGNIYD is a Postdoctoral Fellow from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has been associated with UNESCO-MGIEP, Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) London, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), and Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) for various research projects.

Paba Dharshini Seneviratne

Paba Dharshini Seneviratne

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Pradeep Ghosh

Pradeep Ghosh

Elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2004, Pradeep Ghosh is the Founder and Advisor of OASiS- A Social Innovations Lab, started in 2003, a research lab that focuses on developing new models for the social sector. His innovations have solved issues like social security for different societies, education, community livelihoods and volunteering.

Pranami Garg

Pranami Garg

Pranami Garg is the current Executive Director of the ant. She has been working in the sector for the last 18 years as a development professional. In her past experience, she was instrumental in initiating the School and Adolescent Health Program in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. She has been a Trainer for Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health, Behaviour Change Communication, Menstrual Hygiene Management, Rapid Action Learning, various components of NHM, PRA and PCM.

Pratibha Pathak

Sr. Coordinator - Campaigns & Dissemination

Pratibha Pathak

Sr. Coordinator - Campaigns & Dissemination

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Pratyush Rawal

Founder, Sadbhavna.in

Pratyush Rawal

Founder, Sadbhavna.in

Pratyush is a founding member at India Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS) where he looks after strategy, program management, outreach, and research. He is a graduate from BITS, Pilani (MSc. Tech. Finance, 2013) and Ashoka University (Young India Fellowship, 2017).

Belonging to a family that migrated to India during the Partition of 1947, Pratyush is passionate about working towards 'dialogue across differences' and building a society that is resilient to hatred. He is also a Caux Scholar at Initiatives of Change, Asia Plateau.

Prerna Kumar

International Center for Research on Women

Prerna Kumar

International Center for Research on Women

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Priyanka Sarkar

Priyanka Sarkar

Priyanka is the Director – Media and Communication at ComMutiny and co-envisions and implements the media and communication strategy of the Collective.

Rama Rao Vedula

Senior Program Advisor, AJWS

Rama Rao Vedula

Senior Program Advisor, AJWS

She is a senior program advisor with AJWS, specializing in sexual health and rights in India. Rama has deep experience of working on gender with young women and men. In her previous avatar’s Rama has worked with ComMutiny and played a key role during its incubation years.

Ramnarayan Syag

Board Member

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

Ramnarayan Syag

Board Member

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

Dr Ramnarayan Syag is a member and co-founder of Samavesh Society for Development and Governance. He is also an active member of the coordination team of MP Swashasan Abhiyan, a CSO working on strengthening Gram Sabha and Panchayat Raj. Before Samavesh, he has worked for over 20 years with Eklavya Foundation since its inception in Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program. Fondly known as Syag Bhai, he is also on the advisory board of Jan Sahas.

Ravi Verma

Director, Asia, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Ravi Verma

Director, Asia, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

As Director of ICRW Asia, located in New Delhi, India, Dr. Ravi Verma leads ICRW’s local and regional efforts to conduct research, provide technical support, build capacity and partake in policy dialogue on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic violence, child marriage, engaging men and boys to empower women, HIV/AIDS and economic development.

Rishabh Lalani

Fundraising Strategist

Rishabh Lalani

Fundraising Strategist

Rishabh Lalani is an independent fundraising strategist. He has worked with both large and niche organisations—from Wipro Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, EdelGive Foundation, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences to Sangama, Shiksharth, and Agami—raising more than INR 80 crore over the last nine years. Rishabh sits on the board of Apni Shala Foundation and on the advisory board of Kshetra Foundation for Dialogue.

Rustam Vania

Faculty and Academic Dean Undergraduate Students- Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology,Bangalore

Rustam Vania

Faculty and Academic Dean Undergraduate Students- Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology,Bangalore

Rustam Vania is an Art and Design professional and academic Dean at Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore since 2005. He's also a Board member of CYC. With an academic degree in BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts (Applied Arts), he has been working on multiple disciplines and is a professional practitioner in Editorial Design, Information Design, Typography, Illustration, Popular Science Education, Environment Education, Journalism, etc. He has also been practicing Editorial and Publication Design in print and digital media.

Saloni Goel

Associate Coordinator

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

Saloni Goel

Associate Coordinator

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

A dreamer, a reader, and a Delhite, Saloni is a Young India Fellow, Class of 2020 and an Economics graduate from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She is someone who is always looking out for new things to try out, ideas to work on and finding people crazy enough to try them out with. From very early on, she has always been very firm on creating and walking on her path. 

Shankar Venkateswaran

Advisor, Board member

Shankar Venkateswaran

Advisor, Board member

Shankar's work career of about 40 years has been almost equally divided between mainstream business consulting, social development and business sustainability. Since retiring as the head of sustainability of the Tata group in 2017, he has been involved in several activities in the larger development and business space. He is a part of the founding team of ECube Climate Finance which is setting up a lending platform to address adverse climate change impacts.

Shubham Pandey

Awadh People's Forum

Shubham Pandey

Awadh People's Forum

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Sinjini Mookherjee

Director of Adolescent and Youth Program

Sinjini Mookherjee

Director of Adolescent and Youth Program

Sinjini Mookherjee is a development sector professional and currently heads the Youth Resource Centre of Centre for Youth Development and Activities(CYDA). She has completed her MSW from TISS, Mumbai and has 10 years of experience on working with issues of child rights, protection issues, youth, livelihood and gender. She is part of the senior management team of CYDA.

Siva Nagarajan

Senior Advisor- Tata Trusts

Siva Nagarajan

Senior Advisor- Tata Trusts

Naga as he is usually referred to, spent most of his time in the FMCG space across functions, and across sectors.
His last assignment in the corporate sector was his association with Mother dairy fruits and vegetables , delhi whetre he headed the company from 2010 to 2017

Sneha Pathak

UNDP India

Sneha Pathak

UNDP India

Tamanna Edwards

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Mind Piper

Tamanna Edwards

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Mind Piper

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Tony D'souza

Tony D'souza

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Ujwal Thakar

Advisor, ComMutiny and Mentor to youth and social Entrepreneurs

Ujwal Thakar

Advisor, ComMutiny and Mentor to youth and social Entrepreneurs

A professional who has straddled two different worlds at the top. Starting his life as a Probationary Officer with SBI he worked with Standard Chartered Bank, was part of the setup team at Timesbank, and later at BNP Paribas. In the last three of these banks, he was a member of the executive top management committee and Head of Retail Banking. After 28 years in Banking, he moved as the CEO of Pratham in 2002 and continued in that position for the next six years. Later he became the CEO of GiveIndia.

Venkatesh Srinivassan

Assistant Representative at UNFPA

Venkatesh Srinivassan

Assistant Representative at UNFPA

Management, Public Health Graduate and a Doctorate, works as the Assistant Representative in UNFPA New Delhi. Oversees the adolescents and youth portfolio as well as the population development strategy work in the organization. Over 30 years of experience in public systems development, community development and youth leadership programs in India and other countries as well.

Vipul Mudgal

Director and Chief Executive, Common Cause

Vipul Mudgal

Director and Chief Executive, Common Cause

Vipul Mudgal is an activist, journalist and an academic. He is the Director and Chief Executive of Common Cause (www.commoncause.in), known for its high-impact interventions. He also heads the Inclusive Media for Change (www.im4change.org) a clearinghouse of ideas and information on India's marginalised.

Zulfiquar Haider

Chief strategy and programs officer, Azim Premji Philanthropic initiatives

Zulfiquar Haider

Chief strategy and programs officer, Azim Premji Philanthropic initiatives

Zulfiquar is currently the Chief Strategy and Program Officer at the Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives. He was also the CEO of the Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, a consultant with SDC, DFID, UN and Govt, of India. He was the National programme Coordinator at the UN, the student MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Regonal Programme manager at the Aga Khan Foundation, a consultant at the world bank and the Project Director with the Govt. of M.P.