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Trisha Shetty

Social activist and lawyer

Trisha Shetty is a social activist and lawyer from India. She started SheSays, a non-profit organization working for gender equality through youth and civic-society engagement. Her organization works on public safety, security, quality education, good health and well-being, digital literacy, sanitation, public policy and advocacy through a gender-sensitive lens. SheSays successfully lobbied to have the Indian Government declare sanitary napkins tax-free.

Trisha also serves as the President of the Steering Committee of the Paris Peace Forum, was an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University and sits on the Global Leadership Council for The Museum for the United Nations - UN Live. She is a TED speaker and was awarded the Vogue Women of the Year Award and was a Forbes 30 under 30 honouree.
 

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