Biography:Anoushka Adya
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Anoushka Adya | |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Warwick Business School St. Xavier's College, Mumbai |
| Occupation | Social entrepreneur |
| Organization | Lajja Diaires |
Anoushka Adya is an Indian social entrepreneur, speaker and an advocate for women empowerment.[1] She is the Founder of Lajja Foundation, a non-governmental organization that works for girlchild and women empowerment.[2]
Early life
Anoushka was born in Mumbai . She did her schooling in Delhi and under graduation from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and then went to the UK for her higher studies and work. She graduated from Warwick Business School, UK.[3][1]
Career
Anoushka started working at Whye and Mackey in Glasgow, Scotland.[2][4] She then went on to work in an ad agency called House of Kaizen in London for a few years before deciding to move back to India to set up her own.[5]
In 2014, she returned to India and started Lajja Diaries, which was an online platform for women empowerment and discussed various issues relation to discrimination.[6][2][5]
Lajja created a community of women online and offline, and the Lajja team did various awareness programs and workshops in urban slums and rural areas for the upliftment of young girls and women.[1][7][8]
The causes for the backwardness of the women in society include lack of education and financial independence and the age old social conditioning which needs to change. This led to the formation of Lajja Foundation. The foundation works for the education of underprivileged girls from urban slums.[1][9]
The foundation also organises menstrual hygiene awareness camps and grains distribution schemes in urban slums.[10][11][5]
In 2019, she founded Grow Labs that provides online consultation for mental health awareness.[10][12]
Anoushka has been invited to speak at TEDx[13] and various other events including Udaan 4.0 Entrepreneur fest by IIM Rohtak.[2][14]
Awards and recognition
- 2016: Rising Star for the Year by Exchange4Media Media Ace Awards.[15]
- 2017: Digital Woman Award by SheThePeople TV 2017[16]
- 2018: Entrepreneur Start-up Awards 2018 for Community Developer of the Year[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Meet Anoushka Adya: Entrepreneur with proclivity for women empowerment". https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/2021/dec/11/meet-anoushka-adya-entrepreneur-with-proclivity-for-women-empowerment-2394163.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Anoushka Adya: A promising business leader, and a humanitarian dedicated to uprooting gender bias" (in en). https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/anoushka-adya-a-promising-business-leader-and-a-humanitarian-dedicated-to-uprooting-gender-bias.
- ↑ "Equal Representation Of Women In Economic Activities Is Essential, Feels Social Entrepreneur Anoushka Adya" (in en). 2022-02-07. https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/equal-representation-of-women-in-economic-activities-is-essential-feels-social-entrepreneur-anoushka-adya-news-121360.
- ↑ "MY STARTUP IDEA: DocsApp and Di-mentions Studio founders on their eureka moments - Times of India" (in en). 13 August 2017. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/startups/people/docsapp-dimentions-eureka/articleshow/60034105.cms.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dubey, Tanvi. "Meet the entrepreneur who is giving a voice to victims of sexual abuse to speak up" (in en). https://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/achiever-this-woman-is-giving-a-voice-to-victims-of-sexual-abuse/20160707.htm.
- ↑ Patel, Pooja (5 August 2005). "New digital platform encourages women to speak up against violence" (in en). https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-new-digital-platform-encourages-women-to-speak-up-against-violence-2241231.
- ↑ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem" (in en-US). https://www.techinasia.com/women-victims-of-sexual-violence-speak-on-lajja-diaries.
- ↑ "Women from each stratum must work towards financial inclusion to change the social spectrum, says Social Entrepreneur Anoushka Adya" (in en-US). 2022-02-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20220215140805/https://www.apnlive.com/women-from-each-stratum-must-work-towards-financial-inclusion-to-change-the-social-spectrum-says-social-entrepreneur-anoushka-adya/.
- ↑ "Perseverance is the key to success says Socio entrepreneur Anoushka Adya" (in en-US). 2022-01-25. https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/perseverance-is-the-key-to-success-says-socio-entrepreneur-anoushka-adya/.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Anoushka Adya, The Social Entrepreneur Working For Girlchild Education" (in en). https://www.businessworld.in/article/Anoushka-Adya-The-Social-Entrepreneur-Working-For-Girlchild-Education/30-11-2021-413339/.
- ↑ "Education is key to bring desired changes at the grassroot level, says entrepreneur Anoushka Adya" (in en-US). 2022-01-13. https://www.orissapost.com/education-is-key-to-bring-desired-changes-at-the-grassroot-level-says-entrepreneur-anoushka-adya/.
- ↑ Kale, Ridhi (17 May 2021). "How to mentally cope with the second wave" (in en). https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/how-to-mentally-cope-with-the-second-wave-1803675-2021-05-17.
- ↑ (in en) 4 ways society taught me that my consent didn’t matter | Anoushka Adya | TEDxBocconiUMumbai, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyu2KEMd85w, retrieved 2022-03-07
- ↑ "The W-Suite |'Today’s women leaders are unapologetic about their gender'" (in en-US). https://www.adgully.com/the-w-suite-today-s-women-leaders-are-unapologetic-about-their-gender-71013.html.
- ↑ "Media Ace Awards 2017 for Indian Media Agencies - E4m". http://events.exchange4media.com/media-ace-awards-2017/winners.aspx.
- ↑ "And The Winners of the Digital Women Awards 2017 Are... - SheThePeople TV" (in en-US). https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/winners-2017-digital-women-awards/.
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