Deepa Gupta

Deepa Gupta, is the Founder and former Executive Director of Jhatkaa.org, a digitally savvy, Indian advocacy that has mobilised over 800,000 Indians towards progressive action. She is a successful social entrepreneur, campaigner and coach. In 2008 she co-founded The Indian Youth Climate Network to engage tens of thousands of youth across India in advocacy and public education. Since then she’s joined up with Greenpeace India to develop their mobile advocacy platform which grew to over 1 million members, and launched Change.org India which now has over 8 million users, and is the number one user generated petition site in India. She also served as National Climate Campaigner with Australia’s GetUp.org during the 2010 federal election

Deepa works as a part-time consultant for Global & Collective, a consultancy of women from around the world supporting social movement initiatives.

Specialties: Climate change, advocacy, entrepreneurship, public speaking, public mobilisation & empowerment, movement building, coaching, training, mindfulness, meditation, laughter teacher.