Anoushka Sinha
Gender Equality Fellow - NGI Fellowship
Anoushka Sinha is a passionate human rights and gender equality advocate who has been advocating for women’s rights and education equality since she was 10 years old. She started her journey by organizing campaigns at local NGOs. At the age of 12, she began working as a radio jockey, one of the youngest in the country and ran three seasons of her own radio show aimed towards children in rural India. She has also grown her youth led, SDG focused organization from ground up and has made a global footprint in 40+ countries with her work there as its founder. Her organization today works with esteemed global partners such as the World Bank, United Nations and UNESCO among others.
Anoushka has been recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 India list with a special mention in the Education category. She is a Diana Award recipient which is the highest accolade a young person can receive for their social advocacy, awarded by Prince William & Prince Harry and the Royal Family in the UK & a FEMINA Achievers Awardee for Excellence in human rights activism. She has served as an ambassador for UNEP, on the Young People Action Team as a youth advisor for Generation Unlimited At UNICEF, and as a Steering committee member with UNESCO's Global Youth Community and is currently working as one of the youngest advisors to The World Bank S4YE Initiative.
From losing her dad at a young age to becoming a voice for the most underserved women Anoushka has continued paving the way for many girls like her to pursue higher education and become self-reliant. She has empowered thousands of women and children globally to become self-sufficient and educated through her advocacy, mentorship and activism. Her journey has taught her fearlessness, resilience and an undying desire to bridge the gap, dismantle barriers for women and girls everywhere.
She has impacted over 125,000 young people globally. Her work has been recognised and awarded by Forbes,MIT,UNICEF, Girl Up UN Foundation, KidsRights Changemakers, PeaceFirst and more. She was recognized in the Points Of Light Honor Roll instituted by former US president George W Bush and is one of the youngest fellows to be ever elected into the Royal Society of Arts, London from India. She is a part of the ForbesWomen network and her work has been exhibited at Times Square. She has been among one of the few teens to be featured on NASDAQ for breaking the glass ceiling for girls in STEM and her global impact has been covered by Bloomberg, Yahoo, Financial Times, Business World, NDTV, Times Of India among others.