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Mera Sangeet - Hero of the Month: Sonal Shah...Making a difference in people's lives !!

Submitted by kanwal on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:00

Sonal ShahSonal Shah, an American economist and public official... who has gone much beyond and has made an impeccable impact on people's lives... and touched these lives so very beautifully.... Sonal ji is the co-founder of  Indicorps..... Indicorps is a non-partisan, non-religious, non-profit organization that encourages Indians around the world to actively participate in the progress of the country that defines their identity. Indicorps volunteers have worked in the areas of education, health and sanitation, rural development, Tsunami relief, and microfinance...

 

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Sonal Shah worked at Goldman Sachs and Google.org, before taking on a position at the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Before joining the White House, Ms. Shah managed and implemented two of Google.org's global development initiatives.  The first initiative focused on increasing transparency and openness in East Africa and India.  The second initiative focused on ....... to read more you can visit http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/conferences/social-impact-investments/speaker-shah.html

She received Time magazine's "Community Service" award in 2009 (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1921165_1921239_1921195,00.html)

She was also "India Abroad Person of the Year 2003". Here are few pages from the archives:

On the show, we ask Sonal ji about Indicorps...about her role when she worked as the  Director of Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House...and much more..

And what are sonal ji's future projects... what does she say... when asked that do we the women really live in a Man's world....Sonal ji certainly laughs that off..

So for this wonderful conversation with Merasangeet's Hero of the month--Sonal Shah...do tune-in today...