Name: ChangemakHER Chat: Manat and Paramita
Start: 2022-03-14T16:00:00
End: 2022-03-14T17:00:00
Location: Zoom

ChangemakHER Chats: Intergenerational conversations for change powered by the Women's Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship. Headshots of speakers Paramita Banerjee, Ashoka Fellow, and Manat Kaur, Ashoka Young Changemaker.

Mar 14

ChangemakHER Chat: Manat and Paramita

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In honor of International Women’s Month, join the Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship on March 14th at 4pm EET for a ChangemakHER Chat between Ashoka Young Changemaker Manat Kaur and Ashoka Fellow Paramita Banerjee. In this intergenerational conversation moderated by Next Now Gender Field Leader Zeynep Meydanoglu, Manat and Paramita will explore their shared experiences as women changemakers empowering women and girls.

Meet the Panelists

Manat Kaur is the 18-year-old Founder of Object, a nonprofit promoting confidence in young girls by connecting them with women role models through storytelling. Object hosts monthly workshops with women speakers across a variety of disciplines—CEOs, authors, doctors, Olympians, etc.—who share their stories, lead an activity, and mingle with girls over food. Manat is also an Ashoka Young Changemaker. She enjoys journalism and has written 50+ articles for Sports Illustrated Kids, Scholastic News Kids, the Los Angeles Times, and the Stanford Daily.

Paramita Banerjee is a social activist who dreams of a world where Every Young Voice Counts. To make that dream come true, she opted out of academics nearly three decades ago to work with young people from marginalized communities – creating safe spaces for them, enabling them to voice out their issues and concerns in a manner that can persuade adults to listen to young people and take them seriously. She is the Co-founder and Chief Functionary of DIKSHA, an organization that grew out of an experiment Paramita had started in three red light areas of Kolkata, India, in 1999 with a MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development. She was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2016 for her ability to be ‘the mid-wife who facilitates the birth of new leaders who then build their own brands’ – as demonstrated by DIKSHA.

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