Anusha Bharadwaj

Anusha Bharadwaj

Executive Director, VOICE 4 Girls

India

As Executive Director, Anusha is working towards taking VOICE Camps to marginalised adolescent girls across the country. She believes in the power of girls to transform communities and nations. It is with this conviction that she leads a group of passionate individuals at VOICE 4 Girls, a social enterprise that educates and empowers marginalized adolescent girls with the vision to eliminate gender inequality and violence. VOICE has impacted the lives of over 72,000 adolescents and 3000 young camp counselors. Anusha is also the Founder Director of SoCh for Social Change, a platform that offers young women social leadership skills. The signature program, SILT Bootcamp has launched its first cohort where 16 young women are being groomed to become social impact leaders. The other program of SoCh, Oorja has reached out to 600 young women in Tier II towns. Anusha is an alumnus of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (2005-07); Asia Pacific Leadership Program (2013-14), East West Center, USA; 1stCohort of Harvard-Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program (2014-15); and a Cordes Fellow (2017).