Elsa Marie D'Silva
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Elsa D'Silva or Elsa Marie D'Silva is a former aviation professional and social entrepreneur whose interest in bringing about social change to improve the lives of women, youth and senior citizens through awareness, interaction and education led her to found Safecity.[1][2][3]
Education and Career[edit]
Elsa served as the Vice President, Network Planning at Kingfisher Airlines where she headed the Network Planning & Charters department. She is an alumna of the Swedish Institute, where she did a management program on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Business. After her company went bankrupt, Elsa decided to take on a career shift, and founded the Red Dot Foundation, whose social project is Safecity. Elsa is a 2020 Gratitude Network Fellow, 2019 IWF Fellow and a Reagan Fascell Fellow, a 2018 Yale World Fellow and an alumni of the Stanford Draper Hills Summer School, the US State Department’s Fortune Mentoring Program, Oxford Chevening Gurukul and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Leadership Program. She is also a fellow with Rotary Peace, Aspen New Voices, Vital Voices and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. She co-founded the Gender Alliance which is a cross-network initiative bringing together feminists from the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt's Responsible Leaders Network, the Global Diplomacy Lab, the Bosch Alumni Network and Global Leadership Academy Community (by GIZ).[4]
Social Entrepreneurship[edit]
Elsa founded Safecity, two years after which she founded the Red Dot Foundation to work for gender equality, eradication of violence against women and girls and women empowerment.[2][5] Red Dot Foundation is registered as a non profit in India and in the USA. In India, it has partnered with other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help formulate steps to tackle sexual harassment. Beyond these two cities, Red Dot Foundation also provides its services in Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Cameroon, Trinidad and Tobago and other countries, in partnership with Vital Voices Global Partnership, a US-based NGO.
Awards and Recognition[edit]
Elsa has won several awards including Government of India Niti Aayog’s #WomenTransformingIndia award and The Digital Woman Award in Social Impact by SheThePeople. In 2017, she was awarded the Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices in the presence of Secretary Hillary Clinton. She is also the recipient of Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year - Government or Non- Profit -10 or Less Employees in 2016.
Her work has been recognised by the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations through the Intercultural Innovation Award, SDG Action Festival and the UN Foundation at the Solutions Summit 2016.
She is a co-editor and author of “The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth” published by Anthem Press on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office’s Global Diplomacy Lab.
She has penned articles that have appeared in CNN, Huffington Post, WIP amongst others. She has spoken about her work at the Rotary International Assembly 2019, Aspen Ideas Festival, at TEDx MidAtlantic, UN Women, State Department, Vital Voices South to South Leadership Summit. She has been a panelist for World Bank, NDI, USIP, SheThePeople and hosted a roundtable at the Bloomberg CityLab London 2015.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sexual Harassment In The Virtual Workplace Is Prevalent, And Damaging. Here's What Companies Are Doing To Prevent And Address It". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Voices, Vital (2021-05-21). "16 AAPI Voices You Need To Know". Medium. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ "Towards creating safer cities". Deccan Herald. 2015-11-10. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ "Towards creating safer cities". Deccan Herald. 2015-11-10. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ "How ElsaMarie DSilva is using tech to prevent sexual harassment - SheThePeople TV". Retrieved 2021-06-18.
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