Team
Aditi Agrawal
Aditi has spent a decade in the social impact sector in India, focusing on fundraising, narrative and campaign design and partnerships across gender, youth and climate. She previously built campaigns focused on biodiversity, women-led climate action and sustainable rural ecosystems at the Climate Narrative Hub. She also led India's first youth-led coalition for access to reproductive rights — Youth ke Bol, built measurement systems, narrative strategy and youth-led governance models at the 10to19 Dasra Adolescents Collaborative and led fundraising and partnerships at the Earthshot award winning agriculture startup Kheyti. She is passionate about work at the intersection of community-led decision making, climate resilience and gender justice. Aditi has a degree in Public Affairs and Political Science from UCLA.
Nandika Kumari
Nandika brings 13+ years of experience in India's civil society ecosystem, spanning grassroots organisations, government, and intermediary philanthropy. Her work focuses on building collaboratives, advancing youth and gender equity, and shaping policy and programme strategy. She has led cross-sector partnerships and resource mobilisation efforts to improve outcomes for women and girls. As an independent consultant, she has advised funders, civil society organisations and changemakers on strategy, partnerships, and funding, drawing on a systems-level understanding of the sector. Her work covers a diverse portfolio of actors including the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Dasra, Tata Sons, Tata Consultancy Services, Panthers Paw Publication, Sound of Women, Rights Action Technology Inclusion (RATI), Pehchan and more. She has a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Bachelors in Sociology from St. Xavier's College Mumbai.
Pooja Rao
Pooja's 16 years in social impact are grounded in a personal commitment to shifting power structures in philanthropy and development, and to placing more value on local, feminist perspectives. At Dasra, she led the 10to19 Collaborative, bringing together 300+ civil society organisations and 20+ funders around adolescent health and wellbeing. At Project DEEP, she joined the leadership team in its early years, building India's first dedicated direct cash transfer initiative alongside its two founders. She spent her first seven years working directly with communities: young people at Dream a Dream and people with disabilities at Enable India. She sits on the board of Munnade, a collective of women garment workers. She is a Chevening Gurukul Fellow (University of Oxford), and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business and an MSc from Texas A&M.