Women of India Leadership Summit

The Women of India Leadership Summit will be held at India Islamic Centre from the 18th to 20th September 2014.

The summit aims to help the urban women in the National Capital Region to empower themselves, and includes an illustrious panel of speakers such as Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head, HSBC India; Designer Poonam Bhagat; Emmy Award winner, Dr Kaizaad Kotwal; Karmaveer Puraskar Awardee Mahabanoo Mody Kotwaal, Vishnu Som NDTV , Feroze Gujral and Anand Narasihman Times Now among a list of powerful speakers.

We also are bringing the plays The Vagina Monologues and Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler and To Be Love and Power Within by Dilip Shankar as a special treat. Emotional Creature has never been show cased in the NCR so this will be its premier show on the 20th of September .

Divya Chandra is an actor/writer/director and the Director of BooGio11 Productions and the founder of The Women of India Leadership Summit. Her explorations have led her to the stage, voice work, theatre movement and image work. As an actor, Divya has been committed to working on projects that break certified notions of glam and affectation prefixed with the profession, framing new foundations of transformative-mission oriented art.

Now into its second year, Women of India Leadership Summit is her initiative and BooGio 11 Productions is the founding force behind this landmark event. The summit was incubated as a reaction to the nationwide protests against the lack of safety and power that Indian women endure on a daily basis, that allowed the brutal gang rape and subsequent death of a young medical student in the capital in December of 2012.
The mission of the summit is to change the power dynamic that Indian women suffer by educating them about their rights, providing them with information and tools to better cement their financial position and create more safety and security.