She has 25 + years of pan-India experience in community development work. Primary interest is in capacity building of Not-for-profit organisations towards creating a sustainable, reliable, result oriented, value driven robust organisations. Passionate about Women’s rights issues and improving livelihoods of the poor. Skilled in NGO management, Fund raising, Grant management, Program design, Program Execution, Program Evaluation, and System Monitoring. She started her carrier as a lecturer of Journalism, her passion for community development brought her to work with over 200 NGOs and CBOs in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Worked on several forward looking documents for Donors, Government programs and Academic Institutions. Social development professional with a Master of Arts (M.A.) focused in Mass Communication/Media Studies with special interest in Development Communication from Bangalore University and certification in reporting mechanisms to UN treaty bodies, Legal rights of Women and Advocacy skills. Since 2013, she is CEO of United Way of Hyderabad, a Hyderabad chapter of United Way Worldwide, one of the largest privately funded global NGO. In her current role, she is responsible for operationalising vision, mission, and goal of the organisation as both its programmatic and administrative head.
