Suhani Jalota is an economist and a social entrepreneur working to improve public health and women's employment in India. She set up the
social enterprise Myna Mahila Foundation in 2015, establishing a technology-driven organization that focuses on health, employment, and research around women.
She received the
Glamour Woman of the Year award for 2016. Jalota graduated from
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 2016.
Jalota won the 2017 Queen's Young Leader Award for her start-up and its contributions.
Her social enterprise Myna Mahila Foundation was endorsed by Prince Harry and Meghan. It was the only non-UK-based organization to receive donations instead of gifts for the Royal couple. With this new endorsement, the team is now planning to increase the number of women to 25,000. Suhani Jalota has been nominated for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award.
Awards
* ''Glamour''
Woman of the Year 2016
References
External links
Mahila FoundationSuhani Jalota Academic WebsiteWomen Empowerment NGO
Activists from Maharashtra
Indian women activists
Duke University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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