Founder and DirectorAntarang
Priya Agrawal, an Ashoka Fellow, and an ASPIRe Fellow, is the Founder Director of Antarang Foundation. In a career spanning over 3 decades, Priya has led organisations in advertising and market research, The Akanksha Foundation and SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action).
In her work in education, Priya noticed the many failures of traditional career linkage programs and that the transition to work was very challenging for the most disadvantaged high-school students from low-income demographics across India. She also discovered that the grey zone between education and employment was not just a function of English or traditional vocational skills as was perceived, but also a lack of awareness and access. That led to starting Antarang Foundation in 2013- a systems-integrated, holistic, high impact career education model that works with 5 state governments in India, impacting over 350,000 young adults as of date and slated to impact 2 million by 2025.