Tanvi Girotra is the Chief of Coalition at Every Woman, overseeing coalition strategy, engagement and capacity-building activities. A Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award recipient, Tanvi served as an advisor, trainer, and coach to social impact organizations and mission-oriented leaders across the globe before joining the Every Woman team. At the age of 19, she founded the Becoming I Foundation in India—a young people’s movement focused on connecting Indian youth with community development through organizing. She has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Fora, a center of excellence for young women’s leadership, and was the Vice President of People Power for GirlTrek, America’s largest health movement for Black women. She is the Founding Chair of the Board of Haiyya, one of India’s foremost capacity-building organizations for community organizers coming from marginalized backgrounds.
Tanvi has served as an International Fellow for the Global Fund for Children and was awarded the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India, through which she helped build programs targeted at women and children in high-risk communities. She has been awarded the Karamveer Puraskar for Justice and Citizen Action, and her work has been recognized by the UN, where she has received an award for her “Contribution to Humanitarian Development.” Tanvi has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum at Davos, UN ECOSOC, UN WOMEN at the EU Development Days, the Clinton Global Initiative, and at various TEDx conferences, alongside heads of state, social and business leaders.
Tanvi holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University, where she frequently returns to teach student programs and fellowships on value-based leadership and storytelling. She has been invited as guest faculty for courses on leadership at Stanford University and Princeton University.
To consistently express herself creatively, Tanvi experiments with art and design, and co-hosts a podcast called “Young-ish” that speaks to a new coming of age in one’s adult years. She loves Christmas and Diwali alike, and calls New York/New Jersey and New Delhi home.