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Priya AgrawalAntarang Foundation
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Priya Agrawal is the Founder-Director of Antarang Foundation, an organisation that systemically addresses the gap between education and productive employment for high-risk youth. In a short span of 6.5 years, Antarang has impacted the careers and futures of over 60,000 adolescents and young adults. Prior to founding Antarang in 2012, Priya spent 20 years in advertising and also led large organisations in India’s social sector including The Akanksha Foundation and SNEHA. Priya is an Ashoka Fellow and an UnLtd India Growth Challenge Fellow. She was part of the first cohort of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program.
Antarang is challenging the paradigms in career linkages for children from low income backgrounds who are at a high risk of dropping out of education and falling into the informal, and often exploitative, sector. She is striving to break the stereotypes around job opportunities deemed fit for these children and looking to equip them with soft skills as well as social wherewithal to pursue a career, not just a job, of their choice. She is implementing an empowering process of reflection and a marriage of strengths and reality with dreams, to give a path to each child to stay the course, and make good of a life that is at a high risk of falling through the cracks.
Antarang is challenging the paradigms in career linkages for children from low income backgrounds who are at a high risk of dropping out of education and falling into the informal, and often exploitative, sector. She is striving to break the stereotypes around job opportunities deemed fit for these children and looking to equip them with soft skills as well as social wherewithal to pursue a career, not just a job, of their choice. She is implementing an empowering process of reflection and a marriage of strengths and reality with dreams, to give a path to each child to stay the course, and make good of a life that is at a high risk of falling through the cracks.