Robin Chaurasiya

Robin Chaurasiya is one of the co-founders of Kranti, an NGO that empowers girls from Mumbai's red-light areas to become agents of social change. She has been shortlisted for the $1 million Global Teacher Prize 2016.

She grew up in America with a free spirit and was once an officer with US Military. While submitting her thesis on analysis of anti-trafficking NGOs, called “Victimhood Discourses and India’s Anti-Trafficking NGOs”, she ended up discovering the direction of her life. Meet Robin Chaurasiya - who has spearheaded Kranti, an NGO, to focus on helping trafficked girls escape the sex trade, heal, achieve a good education, and be self-supporting.