Gayathri Vasudevan
Social Entrepreneur | Empowering Marginalized Communities
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Gayathri Vasudevan is a social entrepreneur dedicated to empowering marginalized communities through innovative programs. As founder and CEO of LabourNet, she has helped over 2 million workers in India access skill training, financial services, and livelihood opportunities.
Gayathri's work has been recognized with the Ashoka Fellowship, the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the Niti Aayog Women Transforming India Award. Her keynotes inspire audiences to see the transformative power of social entrepreneurship in tackling global challenges.
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How the coronavirus is impacting India -- and what needs to happen next
The coronavirus pandemic put India's population of 1.3 billion into an extreme and sudden lockdown. Social entrepreneur Gayathri Vasudevan explains how the situation is impacting the country's migrant workers, who are stuck far from home with limited access to food and shelter, and calls for an overhaul of India's social infrastructure in order to get people the essentials they need right now. (This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. Recorded April 9, 2020)
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