Director, Global Media Partnerships @ AshokaPress
Laxmi Parthasarathy is the Director of Global Media Partnerships for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Laxmi is also a media development professional, a former Boehm Media Fellow, and the current Vice Chair of the board of Crossroads International, a leading Canadian international development organization.
Laxmi worked in Swaziland as the communications leader for the country's only gender-based violence prevention NGO, where she developed and executed national media campaigns, co-produced a national radio program, and built local journalism capacity.
In 2007, Laxmi founded MY ROOTS, a Toronto based newspaper, and has worked on media, communications, and development projects in Canada, India, Rwanda, Mexico and the UK. She has delivered lectures on Social Entrepreneurship, Media Development, and the Future of Journalism at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. She received a BA from Carleton University and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2008 she was awarded Top 20 Under 20 in Canada.