Anshul Tewari

Founder

Delhi, India18 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of India's largest citizen media platform.
  • Recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Media Influencer.
  • Skoll World Fellow and Ashoka Fellow for social entrepreneurship.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a social entrepreneur with expertise in media and civic engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Social EntrepreneurshipContent DevelopmentData AnalysisTrusteeship

Other Skills

Board AdministrationBoard OperationNon-profit Board LeadershipBoard GovernanceJournalismBloggingMultimediaBusiness DevelopmentSocial MediaPublic SpeakingNew MediaEntrepreneurshipWeb ContentMarketing StrategySocial Media Marketing

About

Anshul is a social entrepreneur and the Founder of Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA), India’s largest citizen media platform that empowers individuals to share stories and amplify youth voices to shape narratives and drive social change. He is also the founder of the Centre for Public Insights, an initiative that analyzes trends from citizen-generated data and stories to inform decision-making. YKA has a community of over 200,000 monthly contributors, and over 20mn monthly readers - and partners with high-impact organisations to build scalable grassroots storytelling, create impactful narratives, and build civic data to achieve real world outcomes. Anshul is a 2025 Skoll World Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow for social entrepreneurship, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and was named a Young Innovator by the United Nations ITU. He serves on the board of Snap Inc.’s Global Safety Advisory Board, and has previously served on the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Board for South and Southeast Asia.

Experience

Snap inc.

Global Safety Advisory Board

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Snap's Safety Advisory Board is made up of 19 members. It consists of 16 professionals from traditional online safety-focused non-profits and related organizations, as well as technologists, academics, researchers, and survivors of online harms.
  • Members are experts in combating significant online safety risks, like child sexual exploitation and abuse and lethal drugs, and have broad experience across a range of safety-related disciplines, including artificial intelligence.

Internet freedom foundation

Board Trustee

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

  • Serving as Trustee on the board of the Internet Freedom Foundation, that defends online freedom, privacy and innovation in India.
TrusteeshipBoard Operation

Misinformation combat alliance

Board Trustee

Jan 2023Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · India

  • Served by as a founding trustee on the board of the Misinformation Combat Alliance, a cross industry collaborative effort set up with the objective of combatting and limiting the spread of misinformation through targeted interventions and activities.
TrusteeshipBoard Governance

Youth ki awaaz

Founder and CEO

Mar 2008Present · 18 yrs 1 mo · India

  • Anshul Tewari is a social entrepreneur and the Founder of Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA), India’s largest citizen media platform that empowers individuals to share stories and amplify youth voices to shape national conversations and drive social change. He is also the founder of the Centre for Public Insights, an initiative that analyzes trends from citizen-generated data and stories to inform decision-makers, brands, and organizations about the issues that matter most to young people. Through YKA and the Centre, he has worked across media, technology, and community-driven models to build scalable platforms for grassroots storytelling and impactful narratives.
  • Anshul is a 2025 Skoll World Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow for social entrepreneurship and was named a Young Innovator by the United Nations ITU. In 2018, he was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Media Influencer for his pioneering work in democratizing storytelling in India.
  • Anshul serves on Snap Inc.’s Global Safety Advisory Board and is a founding trustee of the Misinformation Combat Alliance, a cross-industry initiative focused on combatting misinformation through targeted interventions. He also serves as a Board Trustee for the Internet Freedom Foundation, which advocates for online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India, and has previously served on the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Board for South and Southeast Asia, contributing to advancing gender equality in the region.
Board AdministrationBoard OperationNon-profit Board LeadershipTrusteeshipBoard GovernanceJournalism+13

Education

Delhi University

B.A. (H) Journalism

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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