Outstanding Women of the Year 2024: A Trailer Sampling Upcoming 12 Episodes

hello I'm samata Sharma I'm the medical director of the brigam and women's hospitals Bridge Clinic which is a low threshold addiction treatment center I'm also the chief medical officer of VOA Mass which provides a Consortium of Behavioral Health Clinics across our state I have had the privilege of doing some work in trauma treatment and gender violence in association with the ASD Survivor Trust International which is a london-based nonprofit organization that's just done some incredible work um and they really have had incredible impact in this space and I've had the privilege of being able to accompany them in parts of their Journey hi my name is Bala vut mutar I'm a software engineer professional I did change my name to bankin but I'm still holding on to them with the cin so I can make my dad proud okay and now today you are in the local news here and so I hope your father dad was very proud of that yes yes that was uh that's uh very exciting for us at the purple wings um Boston 25 News Channel recognized our work and initiative and they interviewed us and I'm gaita pradan the president of the kimridge Community Foundation it is a geographically focused philanthropic organization that provides grants to nonprofits acts as a Civic leader and builds philanthropic Partnerships to help people realize their philanthropic dreams in my role as the CEO of the organization I get involved in all kinds of of things from um partnering with the public sector city government the mayor's office the city councilors uh helping Define policy uh meeting with our local nonprofits that do amazing work for the well-being of the community to meeting with donors and helping them think about how they might realize what they want to accomplish in their Community hi my name is Deepa Agarwal I a co-chairperson of Hindi balua MCH and uh I'm a director and a teacher at shishu bharti I also a president of indianamerican for Burlington I've been working with Hindi man from last 78 years now and Hindi man is bringing not only the Indian Community uh Indian Community who speak Hindi but even now we see the non- Indian people also joining Hindi MCH so Hindi MCH is a very very welcoming and very connecting uh to all the people and that's what I like about Hindi hi my name is gjin kotala I am Bas of New Hampshire and I um run two businesses one is job Genie which is into staff augmentation services and also it's a software Product Company for job Seekers and um I have been in Talent acquisition HR for last two decades in Boston neighborhood and in parallel I run my uh business which is uh into film making and life Productions um last year I had released theatrically an Hindi film which is NRI wives this was a film which was shot this was the first film which was shot in New England and some other parts of America um and with God's grace we were invited at koule Sharma show too to talk about our bold film and RV great stories of Love versus desires gjan you mentioned uh that you have come from this roller coaster uh ride and I was wondering uh if you can share some of your roller coaster Journey if it's okay with you starting from being an Indian uh growing up in middle class family I've gone through uh child sexual abuse as well ever since I was three and a half four years old to um all kind of roller coasters of Our Guest today is yesmin padmi Forbes you are a executive director at the uh Asian Pacific Asian American Pacific Commission of Massachusetts yeah so what this commission does and what is your role there um yeah so the Asian-American Pacific Islander commission it's a organization that looks out for the AI population across Massachusetts uh the commission has been around for more than 15 years and it is uh you know being supported and being uh have uh Commissioners who have been appointed by various appointing authorities appointing authorities are such as like the governor or the state treasurer hello my name is Sadam I'm a founder and chair of women empowering Women program at India Society of wer shrewbury I teach physics I'm an assistant professor at WPI in the physics department um I uh want to promote women's sense of selfworth and their social influence to make the right changes for themselves hi I'm akanga Patel I'm the director of information and Technology at plan International USA it's a girls rights organization we fight for gender inequality and we have several programs in over 80 countries and 55,000 plus communities we work with different programs different organizations to fight gender inequality human trafficking and child marriages and we help girls feel confident and we Empower them my name is tanu Phoenix I am the President of India Association of Greater Boston I'm a mother I'm a daughter I'm a domestic violence Survivor I Empower I survive I'm the Phoenix mix