Harsha Ravindran
Co-Founder & CEOAscendance
Biography
Harsha is a successful 22-year-old social entrepreneur; a 3 times TEDx speaker and international conference speaker; and recipient of the Diana Award for Young Changemakers in 2019 from the Diana Award Foundation, UK.
She is an Executive Director of the NextGen Entrepreneurship Network, a non-profit in the United States aimed to curate a community of exceptional Gen Z social entrepreneurs.
She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ascendance – an international social enterprise that works with over 50,000 students across 26 countries, transforming at-risk students into social entrepreneurs. Ascendance enables at-risk students to gain economic mobility through experiential learning that teaches entrepreneurship, financial literacy, work-ready skills, sustainability and more, developing over 50+ revenue-generating student social enterprises in 2024 alone.