Bio

Talent is universal; opportunity is not! - Nicholas Kristof

2016-2017 Champion for Change @ Empower Women

Sharda holds a Master’s in Gender, Media and Culture from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Having worked as a communications professional in the social sector, she is extremely passionate about using the digital space for empowering the society and improving citizen participation at varied levels. Her main areas of interests are human rights, gender and governance.br /Sharda strongly feels that education is a power changer and an essential means of empowerment. And it is this belief that was instrumental in her choice of working at Aidha, a Singapore-based not-for-profit organization that provides financial literacy and management skills to foreign domestic workers and lower-income women in Singapore so that they can create sustainable futures for themselves through financial education.