

Aarti Naik, 24, lives in Mulund West, a suburban slum area of Mumbai, India, and runs SAKHI: Girls’ Education Project, an organization that helps urban slum girls exercise their right to an education.
Jasmeen Patheja heads up Blank Noise, a network throughout India that trains women to not give up their power to men intent on street sexual harassment and violence. Jasmeen proves through Blank Noise that there is power in looking and speaking back and that we don’t have to be afraid after all!
Sapna Shahani, a documentary filmmaker from Bombay who works in Goa, started Women Aloud Videoblogging for Empowerment that gives young women the tools, equipment, and opportunity to create videos about community issues from their unique points of view.