Founder, Her Haq
Aanya 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. She is the Co-Founder of Her Haq the successor 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. She is 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.
She is currently working with Beyond Capital Ventures, a women led VC firm investing in India and Africa with a social impact lens. She was a part of the Founding Team at The Udaiti Foundation, focused on empowering women economically. She has also given three TedX talks and has worked in the past with UNESCO’s Cluster Offices, The Quint and with Dr. Fauzia Khan, a member of the parliament. Aanya was also on the Young People’s Action team for UNICEF. She recently won the HT She Slays Award for Social Cause and was one of the youngest winners across 19 categories. Aanya also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and Refugee Law.