Dec 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India · Hybrid

• 🌟 Excited to contribute to impactful initiatives in Gujarat!
• As a consultant supporting UNICEF's Behaviour Change, Communication, Advocacy, Civic, and Digital Engagement initiatives, I bring technical expertise to shape and drive integrated Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) interventions across critical program areas:
• Nutrition
• Health
• Education
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
• Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability
• Child Protection
• My role includes:
• ✔ Developing strategies, guidelines, concept notes, and research insights to design and implement transformative programs.
• ✔ Coordinating advocacy and communication efforts, including media and digital outreach, to amplify key goals across these sectors in Gujarat.
• 📌 With a focus on delivering sustainable, community-centred solutions, I look forward to collaborating with stakeholders to create a lasting impact for children and communities.
• I look forward to my professional network for their continued support and guidance.
• #UNICEF #SocialImpact #BehaviorChange #Advocacy #DigitalEngagement #Sustainability #ChildProtection #CommunityDevelopment #Gujarat

Sep 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

• Teach Understanding Public Communication Systems
• This two-month course provides an in-depth exploration of the foundational and contemporary approaches to public communication in the context of design. Students will engage with early and modern development theories and models to understand how communication strategies evolve in response to societal needs.
• Key topics include:
• The evolution of development models and their influence on communication systems.
• The role and impact of public social campaigns in addressing critical societal challenges.
• Concepts of social development and their intersections with design practices.
• Frameworks for driving social behaviour change through innovative communication strategies.
• Designed for Bachelor of Design students, the course bridges theoretical insights with practical applications, enabling participants to craft impactful communication solutions for social good.

Sep 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr · Gujarat, India

• YuWaah is a multi-stakeholder platform that aims to prepare young people to transition from education and learning to productive work and active citizenship. YuWaah works with young people to co-create and implement solutions at scale with a focus on participation, education, skilling and unemployment challenges for young people in India, through listening deeply, creating collaboratively and leadership through change-making. It was launched in India on Nov 1, 2019, with Govt of India and multiple stakeholders.
• Looking forward to connecting with organizations working on skilling/job creation/21st century skills/ entrepreneurship and youth engagement in Gujarat. Feel free to connect.

Jul 2020 – Sep 2020 · 2 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Mar 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gandhinagar

• Media advocacy, Content creation, Social media strategy, event conceptualization & execution, and partnership relationship.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 · 7 yrs · Gandhinagar

• Teaching Social Media platforms, social media campaigns and writing for social media platforms, journalism across media

Apr 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Gujarat, India

• The Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC) supports startups, entrepreneurs and innovators in Gujarat, and facilitates the promotion of a culture and spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation across the university in order to sensitise over 3,50,000 enrolled students with 300+ affiliated institutes and 50+ academic departments of the university.

Apr 2017 – Dec 2017 · 8 mos · Gujarat, India

• Will be supporting the UNICEF Gujarat state office in advocacy and communication activities, documentation, media analysis. Besides, expanding the present scope of social media engagements and create new platforms for engagement at the district level.

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017 · 9 mos · United Kingdom

• Implement social media strategy in global and Asia-Pacific channels (CommunityManagement), Develop Promotional strategy for Asia-Pacific regional and local events, content development for fellowships, conferences and all other events in the region, team development, look for volunteers to support work of Asia-Pacific communication team.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo · Gujarat, India

• Supporting and Co-ordinating for UNICEF Gujarat Communication Officer in conceptualization and design of the stall, creating interactive quizzing platforms on child right & CSR with design and content input. Daily event documentation in photo story and articles, building engagement at the stall. social media packages, live tweeting, interacting with dignitaries, supporting a video documentation, and writing and designing a detailed report on the UNICEF Gujarat stall at Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2017.
• Coordination with multiple vendors involved in the project among others.
• Vibrant Gujarat, is the biennial investors' summit held by the government of Gujarat at Gandhinagar. The event aimed at bringing together business leaders, investors, corporations, thought leaders, policy and opinion makers; the summit is advertised as a platform to understand and explore business opportunities in the State of Gujarat. For the last three editions, UNICEF Gujarat has been a regular partner and participant in the Summit.

Apr 2016 – Dec 2016 · 8 mos · Gujarat, India

• Social Media Packages, Communications events, Bloggers outreach among other communications related activities.

Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 · 7 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Consulting on Media and Partnership initiatives for UNICEF Gujarat.

Dec 2016 – Jan 2026 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Gujarat, India · Hybrid

• Communications & social media consultancy for not-for-profit organizations, NGOs, social causes, government institution and academic institutes, entrepreneurs, advise to public relations firms, works on independent projects, content writing for a multitude of websites & communications materials for brands & companies. I write on social media for newspapers, magazines, and blogs and also give my views to traditional media.

May 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

• The global shapers community is a network of hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.An Initiative of the World Economic Forum -Global Shapers.
• Part of Voluntary Work.

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Elected as Vice Curator for the Year 2014-2015
• The global shapers community is a network of hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.An Initiative of the World Economic Forum -Global Shapers.
• Part of Voluntary Work.

May 2015 – Mar 2016 · 10 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• We design Concrete strategies, by putting the User as the Core Touch point. We also map the key forces that will have an impact on the business and develop future road maps accordingly.
• We work towards finding solutions that connects with the users. We provide Design services in Identity Building, Re-branding and providing a facelift to the organization.
• More here : http://strategiesandsmiles.com/about.html
• Work with social cause, social organization, government and academic institutes.
• Design & communications startup incubated at National Institute of Design (NID)

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · India

• An upcoming online Urban Advocacy platform for healthy cities covering urban poverty, urban mobility, urban women and other related issues.
• Please check : www.fb.com/urbanvoicesin
• www.t.com/urbanvoicesin

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad Area, India

• CROWD FUNDING INITIATOR(CFI) IS INDIA'S FIRST BOOT CAMP DEDICATED TO MAKE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS & INNOVATORS CROWD-FUND READY.
• We have trained more than 100 students in creative thinking, leadership qualities, social marketing skills and helped them in converting their ideas into concrete action.
• Most of the participants are from small cities in Gujarat. This is an attempt to take entrepreneurship at college level and make the students self reliant.

Jun 2014 – Jan 2015 · 7 mos · Gujarat

• Communication & Digital media support on project basis.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2022 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Gujarat, India

• Creating Responsibly Digital Community. Powered by a 3-Dimensional Philosophy
• Inform : Spreading awareness about the benefits and scope of technological breakthroughs in the digital media landscape.
• Engage : Endowing individuals & professionals with keen insights shared by industry leaders to improve engagement metrics.
• Empower : Empowering brands and individuals to leverage the potential of digital media platforms and be digitally responsible and use it for social good.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Open Hours, a social initiative in field of digital Media. Conceptualizer and co initiator to promote social media for social issues,urban governance and empowering voices.

Dec 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Strategic communications, Media planning & outreach, social media strategist, conceptualize campaigning around sustainable transportation issues, Editorial, Press Release, Branding, Networking, Project proposals, research, managing social media platforms for organization, content creator and contributor in blogs, public outreach.

Sep 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · India

• day-to-day work includes handling the communication affairs of ITDP in different Indian cities.
• Responsible for looking after publications and creating communications plan around it.
• managing dialogue and event oriented interactions with the stakeholders.
• Building ITDP media presence in India. Providing support in event coordination among other outreach related activities. Strengthening internal communications within the organization.
• Upgrading the organizations website and improving their web and social media content.
• Created press lists, pitching sustainable transport related stories with reporters, wrote press releases and articles for newspapers and magazines.

Apr 2007 – Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• City Reporter- Urban issues / traffic & transportation /healthcare/ sanitation/ Infrastructure projects/ Non Government Organisations/ Science & Technology/ Environmental issues / Social cause/ child and women issues /

Oct 2006 – Mar 2007 · 5 mos

• Covered premier educational institutes like IIM-A, MICA, NID, NIFT among others.