She Is: Honoring 75 Indian Women in STEAM

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The Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India in partnership with Red Dot Foundation, British High Commission, and FICCI FLO will commemorate India’s 75th year of Independence by honouring 75 Indian Women in STEAM (fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) through ‘She Is’ book series. The aim of the book series is to showcase more women role models for youth, make visible the leadership of women and generate interest in the SDGs.

On March 3rd at an event in New Delhi celebrating International Women’s Day 2022 hosted by British High Commissioner, the Principal Scientific Adviser to GoI Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, His Excellency British High Commissioner Mr. Alex Ellis, Ms. Supreet K Singh and Ms ElsaMarie D'Silva from Red Dot Foundation announced 75 women in STEAM on March 3rd, 2022 at New Delhi. These 75 Women in STEAM will feature in the second edition of "She Is" Book series as part of celebration commemorating India’s 75 years of Independence– Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

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Principal Scientific Adviser to GoI Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, His Excellency British High Commissioner Mr. Alex Ellis, Ms. Supreet K Singh and Ms ElsaMarie D'Silva from Red Dot Foundation announcing the final 75 women in STEAM on March 3, 2022 at New Delhi.

The final selected 75 women in STEAM to feature in the second edition of "She Is" Book series are:

S.No.	75 Indian Women in STEAM	Category
1	Aditi Chaturvedi	Technology Policy
2	Anandi Iyer	Climate Science and Comunication
3	Anjali Malhotra	Information and Communication Technology (IT or ICT)
4	Anu Acharya	Health Sciences
5	Anupama Kapoor	Human Resource
6	Anushree Malik	Environment Science
7	Apoorva Bedekar	Medical Devices
8	Archana Chugh	Biological Science
9	Arti Kashyap	Design and Technology
10	Azra Ismail	Design and Technology
11	Bijayalaxmi Biswal	Health Sciences
12	Bineesha Payattati	Environment Sciences
13	Binu Verma	Education
14	Brinda Somaya	Architecture
15	Chanda Nimbkar	Biological Science
16	Cheryl Pereira	NGO
17	Deepti Gupta	Engineering
18	Dr. Darshana Joshi	Physics
19	Dr. Manisha Acharya	Incubation and Innovation
20	Dr. Rakhi Chaturvedi	Biological Science
21	Dr. Shubhangi Umbarkar	Chemical Science
22	Dr. Archana Sharma	Engineering
23	Dr. Bharti Singal	Biological Science
24	Dr Kalpana Nagpal	Pharmaceutical Sciences
25	Dr. Preeta Sharan	Engineering
26	Dr. Shamita Kumar	Environment Sciences
27	Durba Sengupta	Biochemistry
28	Ekta Viiveck Verma	Gender Based Violence
29	Gayatri Jolly	Design & Technology
30	Geeta Mehta	Design & Technology
31	Geeta Rai	Biological Science
32	Jiban Jyoti Panda	Biological Science
33	Kaitki Agarwal	Information and Communication Technology (IT or ICT)
34	Karon Shaiva	Sustainable development
35	Kavita Gonsalves	Design & Technology
36	Kiran Bala	Environment Sciences
37	Kiran Manral	Arts and Communications
38	Ligy Philip	Civil Engineering
39	Madhavi Latha Gali	Civil Engineering
40	Mitali Nikore	Economics
41	Monali Zeya-Hazra	Environment Sciences
42	Monalisa Chatterji	Pharmaceutical Sciences
43	Namrata Rana	Climate Science and Communications
44	Nandita Das Gupta	Electrical Engineering
45	Neelam Chhiber	Social Impact
46	Neharika Malhotra	Health Sciences
47	Nishima Wangoo	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
48	Padma Parthasarathy	Information and Communication Technology (IT or ICT)
49	Preeti Aghalayam	Chemical Engineering
50	Prof. Arpita Mondal	Environmental Engineering
51	Prof. Dr. Jaideep Malhotra	Health Sciences
52	Radhika Bhalerao	Health Sciences
53	Ranjani Viswanatha	Chemical Science
54	Rashmi Putcha	Design & Technology
55	Rituparna Mandal	Semiconductors
56	Ruma Pal	Health Sciences
57	Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	Neuroscience and neurotoxicology
58	Shelaka Gupta	Chemical Engineering
59	Shilo Shiv Suleman	Arts and Communications
60	Shilpi Sharma	Environment Sciences
61	Shital Kakkar Mehra	Social impact
62	Shriti Pandey	Architecture
63	Shyamala Rajaram	Information and Communication Technology (IT or ICT)
64	Simmi Dhamija	Information and Communication Technology (IT or ICT)
65	Sreedevi Upadhyayula	Chemical Engineering
66	Susan Eapen	Biological Science
67	Swarnalatha J	Disability Rights & Community Service
68	Trupti Das	Environment Sciences
69	Upasana Ray	Biological Science
70	Vandana Nanal	Physics
71	Vanmala Jain	Design & Technology
72	Varsha Singh	Psychology
73	Vishakha Chandhere	Clean Energy
74	Yama Dixit	Climate Science and Communications
75	Zaibunnisa Malik	Computer Science
Special Mention	Shannon Olsson	Ecology and Sustainability

Women across the country were encouraged to apply/nominations were requested, and 200 applications/nominations were received. Top 75 Women in STEAM were selected form these nominated names by a Jury comprising of members from British High Commission, PSA’s office and following -

Jury Members

Jayanti Dalmia

Ujjwala Singhania

Mridula Nair

Chitra Rajgopal

Anuraddha Ganesh

Aparna Gupta

Aafreen Siddiqui

Kanta Singh

Patricia Pinto

Deepali Nimbalkar

Seemantinee Khot

The first edition of She Is covered “Stories of Women Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in India” and was launched on 25 November 2021 by Hon’ble British High Commissioner Mr. Alex Ellis. Subsequently Hon’ble Consul General Mr. David Ranz of the US Consulate General Mumbai hosted a physical launch along with a roundtable Accelerating Gender Equality. Some articles featuring the first book are in the Times of India and India Together.

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The first edition of “She Is: Stories of Women Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in India”

(Image Credit: India Today)

She Is: 75 Indian Women in STEAM

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