Shagun Sharma shares her journey of meaningful volunteering and explores how volunteering grows and multiples social change leaders. My journey in the development sector started in a red-light district. At the age of 18, and only a few months out of school, I began exploring the “problems that…
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Shagun Sharma
BrowsingShagun Sharma believes in transformational form of leadership, driven by a zeal to make ground-level impact through on-ground engagements and policymaking. An Audit Associate with KPMG Global Services, she works off-shore clients in the financial services team,
Her passion is clear in her role as a Youth Accountability Advocate with Restless Development, where she conducted research on gender-based violence and has been focusing on redressal services for women who face gender-based violence in an urban slum in Delhi, India. She is using evidence-based research to advocate for applicable policies for SDG 5 to address the urgent needs of women & young people in her community. She presented her advocacy ask to stakeholders at United Nations World Data Forum in October 2020 and currently, she is designing a community campaign and report to engage in local advocacy.