Dr Varsha Pillai has close to 2 decades of experience in the media and communications domains in the for-profit and development sectors. A specialist in media advocacy and public policy advocacy initiatives, Dr Pillai was a NFAI (National Film Archives of India) research fellow in 2009, followed by a NUFFIC Fellow in 2017 and in 2019 she was selected among 10 young leaders globally for the Winterschool for Thinktankers in Geneva as part of the Think Tank Initiative Fellowship. More recently in August 2022, Dr Pillai was selected as a Changemaker by Change.Org India 2022. She has completed her PhD on Gender Advocacy in Digital Media in India from Symbiosis International University and presently heads the narrative building and communications at Dream a Dream, a not for profit based India.