Honoured to Introduce
Suhani Jalota
Founder & CEO Myna Mahila Foundation
Global CSR & Philanthropy Community
Mumbai Chapter
Suhani Jalota is an activist working to improve public health in India. She set up the social enterprise Myna Mahila Foundation along with three women, establishing a factory that produces sanitary products, and which employs poor women in Mumbai by giving them jobs selling these products.
She received the Glamour Woman of the Year award for 2016. Jalota graduated from Duke University in 2016.
Jalota won the 2017 Queen’s Young Leader Award for her start-up and its contributions.
Her social enterprise Myna Mahila Foundation was endorsed by Prince Harry and Meghan. It was the only non-UK based organization to receive donations instead of gifts for the Royal couple. With this new endorsement, the team is now planning to increase the number of women to 25,000. Suhani Jalota has been nominated for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award.
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INTERN
Mahindra & Mahindra
july 2010 - July 2010 (1 month) . -
Independent Economics Research Project
National Slum Dwellers Federation
June 2011 - August 2011 (3 months) . -
Group Member
RTI International
anuary 2013 - May 2013 (5 months . -
Independent Project Grant Recipient
Duke University, DukeEngage
May 2013 - July 2013 (3 months) . -
Intern
Naandi Foundation
uly 2013 - July 2013 (1 month) . -
Board Member
Duke Student Government, Financial Aid Advisory Committee
October 2013 - May 2014 (8 months . -
co-founder
Ambassadors for Change: Oral Rehydration Therapy
October 2013 - July 2014 (10 months) . -
Intern
Economic Policy Research Institute
May 2014 - August 2014 (4 months) . -
Agent
Duke Launch
January 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 5 months) . -
Campus Director
Hult Prize Foundation
September 2014 - May 2015 (9 months) . -
co-founder
mBadlaav
January 2015 - May 2015 (5 months) . -
intern
Dalberg Global Development Advisors
June 2015 - August 2015 (3 months) . -
Commitment Maker - CGI U 2014 & 2016
Clinton Global Initiative
March 2014 - March 2016 (2 years 1 month) . 2 Years 1 Months -
President
Net Impact
April 2014 - April 2016 (2 years 1 month) . -
Associate
IDinsight
August 2016 - September 2017 (1 year 2 months) . -
CEO and Founder
Myna Mahila Foundation
May 2015 - Present (6 years 2 months) .
Academic details
University:
University of Cambridge
Degree:
Leading Change, Leadership Studies
Year:
2017
University:
Stanford University
Degree:
Executive program in Social Innovation/Entrepreneurship
Year:
2018
University:
Duke University
Degree:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Specialization:
ECONOMICS
Certification:
Global Health
Year:
2016
University:
Stanford University
Degree:
MBA
Year:
2022
University:
Stanford University
Degree:
PHD
Specialization:
health Policy and Economics
Year:
2023
Achievements
- Glamour Woman of the Year 20162016
Social Cause
Volunteer for Immunization Slum Level Survey
• Attended a training workshop to learn about immunization in the slums, cultural competency, earlier surveys and extent of the problem in Kaula Bandar slums, Mumbai, India • Surveyed families house-to-house to ask parents about their children’s immunization history
Independent Project - Building a Community Based Organization
• Held meetings in the community where toilet was to be built to learn about community leaders and recognize the current structure • Formed an 11-member community based organization that would run the local public toilet
Community Organization Development Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
• Visited communities under the ‘Baan Mankong’ scheme that redevelops slums and learnt about the organization, CODI, from community leaders and representatives • Wrote a report on the similarities and differences between Mumbai slums and schemes and Bangkok slums and schemes for slum redevelopment