Aanya Wig
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Girl Up Rise
India
Aanya Wig, is a recent graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for women and a SUSI scholar, being one of the four girls nominated to represent India for a women’s leadership fellowship with the US Department of State. I am the Co-Founder of Girl Up Rise, a youth-led collective working towards creating an ideal world where no woman has to fight to make her voice heard. I was also the Co-Founder of Covid Fighters India, one of the biggest Covid Relief initiatives in the country which came up during the second wave and had more than 13,000+ volunteers and was also on the WICCI Anti Sexual Harassment Council for New Delhi. I am a Programme Associate at Circle In, working on empowering women economically. I have also given three TedX talks and have worked in the past with UNESCO’s Cluster Offices, The Quint and with Dr. Fauzia Khan, a member of the parliament. I am also on the Young People’s Action team for UNICEF working towards empowering young people.