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Founder and CEO of Bombay Closet Cleanse, India’s first thrift store is an advocate of sustainable and circular fashion. She also hosts a mental health podcast called Senti-Mental, featured on Spotify and Audible Suno.

An inspiring personality, Mrs. Neerja Birlais a progressive, dynamic and versatile leader, driven by her passions and an unwaveringresolve to give back to society. A passionate educationist and a mental health champion, Mrs. Neerja Birla is the Founder and Chairperson ofAditya Birla Education Trust(ABET), a social enterprise that endeavours to positively impact the lives of people from all sections of society and bring about progressive change in the field of education and on the mental health landscape of India.

Navya Naveli Nanda is an entrepreneur and women’s rights advocate. She is the co-founder of Aara Health, a women’s healthcare platform in India focusing on providing medically verified content around women’s health & scientifically backed products for preventative care. She is also the founder of Project Naveli a non-profit initiative supporting gender equality in India, specially focusing in the fields of education, healthcare & financial independence. Navya graduated from Fordham University in New York with a major in digital technology and UX design. 

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. 

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. 

Dr. Namrata Pol heads Product & Medical Operations function for Vivant. She is a healthcare management expert with over 9 years of work experience in the health sector. She started her corporate stint with United Healthcare consulting practice and went on to work at some of the leading healthcare organizations like Kaya and Surya Children Hospital.

Bhuvan Bam is an actor, creator & singer-songwriter from India. Popularly known for his creation BB Ki Vines which has a strong following of more than 20M ardent viewers. Bhuvan is strong supporter of Girl Child Education and was the first Indian creator to represent the country at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020.

Make way for ‘Miss Chandigarh’ ?? From singing, modelling, and acting to having all the eyes on her in Big Boss 14, @saragurpals has done it all.

Punjab di kudi, kitni soni lagdi ? Nikeet Dhillon is a Punjabi actress and model who won the title of ‘Miss India Sapphire Continental’ in 2017. She started her career in 2018 as a model in Punjabi music videos.

She carries the crown, quite literally ? Neha Thakur is a model, actress and self-certified nerd who is better known as ‘Seerat’ from her show Tera Rang Chadheya. She was a finalist for Miss Himachal 2020 and loves to indulge in dancing too ??