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Ladies who are redefining the world

Get a dose of girl power from our multi-talented IAGT FAM who are leading the way for girls everywhere.

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Kabita Singh (Kabita’s Kitchen)

Started her journey by documenting everyday Indian cuisine on Youtube, Kabita Singh rose to fame with her delicious recipes. Initially a bank employee, she quit her job to start a new venture that now has over 11.8 million subscribers and identifies herself amongst the most popular female cooks in India.

Kamakshi Khanna

Kamakshi Khanna is a singer and songwriter whose music represents strength in vulnerability. She is an artist who believes in the power of constantly reinventing and innovating her art, she is influenced by R&B/Soul, folk, pop, Jazz and Hindustani Classical. With an EP (Much Mellow) and album (Cakewalk) under her belt, Kamakshi is now experimenting with her sound while keeping it subtle and understated, an aesthetic she truly stands for. Some of her notable performances include indie music festivals like NH7 Weekender Pune & Shillong, VH1 Supersonic in Pune, Rhythm N Blues Festival in Kasauli, Lil Flea Festival in Mumbai and Delhi and a solo US tour across cities like New York, LA and Austin. Kamakshi also appeared on Season 1 of India’s first English singing show, ‘The Stage’ and was one of the top 6 contestants.

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Kareema Barry

A cheery, bubbly and charismatic personality, Kareema is the star of the show, wherever she goes. Surprisingly, quite the debating champion, Kareema is known to produce overdramatic (but also true) takes on slice-of-life moments. The millennial comic found stardom through TikTok and more recently, through Instagram. She reiterates the true worth of women and addresses mental health. Creatively expressing her opinions on serious problems, she has a charming way of lifting our mood.

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Karen David

Karen David began her career on London’s West End, in the original cast of Mamma Mia! Upon her drama school graduation stint at the Globe, as Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost. She went on to star in new dramatist plays at Stratford Royal East, the Hammersmith Lyric Theatre and in the U.S, worked with director, Kimberly Senior, and Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist, Ayad Akhtar, on his play, The Who and the What, for La Jolla Playhouse. Shortly after graduating drama college, in between acting on stage, she signed a recording deal with music giant, BMG, and a publishing deal with Hit & Run/EMI music. She went on to achieve top 4 airplay hits in Europe from her album, and has collaborated and worked with Oscar winning composer, AR Rahman, (Slumdog Millionaire). In tv and film, she is currently a series regular as Grace on AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, and has been a series regular as Isabella on ABC’s Galavant. Karen has been a recurring guest star on many TV shows, including most recently, CW’s Legacies, ABC’s The Rookie, the award winning, reunion series of ITV’s Cold Feet, HBO’s Barry, ABC’s Once Upon A Time as Jasmine, and CBS’s Criminal Minds to name a few. In the animation world, Karen is currently voicing the roles of Ashima, Shilpa and Ruby on Disney’s hit show, Mira, Royal Detective. Recently, Karen co-produced her first short film and acted in “In Hollywoodland” which was selected for competition screenings in Geena Davis’, Bentonville Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, Social Injustice Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival and Hollyshorts to begin with, and is continuing on the film festival circuit this year. Her other films include film festival and audience cinema award favorite, The Tiger Hunter, opposite Danny Pudi, Netflix’s Amar, Akbar & Tony, Bollywood Queen, with James McAvoy, Batman Begins, The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior, Couples Retreat, Red Lights and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. 

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Kiana Valenciano

She is a multi-faceted artist, carving her own niche in entertainment locally and across the globe as an award-winning singer-songwriter. Music will always be Kiana’s first love and medium of choice to express herself.

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Kirti Poonia

Kirti is the CEO of Okhai, over the last 6 years she built one of India’s largest Apparel & Lifestyle Marketplace for rural artisans to directly sell to customers  www.Okhai.org, she scaled from 350 to 27,000 artisans and 10x in Revenue. A part of TAS (Tata Administrative Services) Kirti has worked across 6 Tata Companies across functions and geographies.This year Kirti won the Business World Women Entrepreneurship Award – 2021 for her Impact at Okhai. Kirti has also been acknowledged by Niti Aayog as the Top 100 women transforming India 

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Kopal Khanna

Kopal Khanna is the CEO of Tape a Tale, one of the largest Storytelling Platforms in the world. Her vision and her ambition to harness and wield the power of words has enabled countless artists to find a home through self-expression. She also runs her own Podcast called, ‘Qisse with Kopal’ accommodating top voices from the Creator and Entertainment industry.

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Kusha Kapila

A popular internet sensation, Kusha Kapila has done her bachelor’s degree in fashion technology. She had worked for the online portal iDIVA as a content writer and later came up with a series of hilariously relatable sketches. Most known for her fictional character Billi Maasi, Kusha also appeared in TV series such as Back Benchers, Son of Abish, and Kitchen, Khanna and Konversations. Not only has she worked with industry bigwigs such as Sonam Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Kareena Kapoor Khan, she also bagged her Bollywood debut in Karan Johar’s Ghost Stories. Her purpose is simple, create content and entertain her audience.

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Leeza Mangaldas

Leeza Mangaldas is an Indian digital content creator who creates sex positive content on YouTube and Instagram. Her videos cover topics such as consent, contraception and STI prevention, gender identity, feminism, body confidence, and pleasure. Her content aims to normalize conversations around sexuality, sexual health, and the body and to make sex education accessible to everyone. Leeza is the foremost sex positive content creator who started talking about the importance of sex education when know one really knew a lot about it. She began creating Hindi content back in 2020 to reach the audience in rural areas who don’t have easy access to sex education which helped her gain a wider set of audience for her content on YouTube and Instagram.  Leeza was named one of GQ’s 25 Most Influential Young Indians in 2021. She was also the recipient of the Google x SheThePeople Digital Women Award for Content and the POPXO power women award earlier this year.  She has been featured in Times of India, Vogue India Elle India, and other publications for creating a safe space for people to learn about sexual health. 

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Lekha Washington

Lekha Washington is an acclaimed actor, poet, sculptor and product designer,
At the age of eighteen, she did her first solo art show followed by her debut lead performance in theater. Since then, she has been doing wonders in the fields of art, product design and performance.
Lekha graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad conferred with a dual degree of lifestyle product design and Film direction. However, she has always been passionate about being in front of the camera, a fact which is justified by several stirring performances given by her in lead roles.
She is a woman who wears many hats as she is the founder of ‘Ajji- The Odd Product Company’ in 2011 to constantly support innovation and original design. Nowadays, this venture is popularly known by the name of ‘Lekha Washington Studio.’
With accolades in varied fields, Lekha has been keen on working collaboratively with multiple disciplines to create experiences that allow for a moment of magic.
She is admired and respected for her strenuous efforts in bringing a wave of evolution in different fields with the ultimate aim to subsequent development of varied domains in question

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