Daraa Patel   

In 2018, She has started You Are Not Alone from a single social-media post; within minutes, 250+ people reached out seeking someone to talk to. With no NGO, funding or formal team, She turned those grassroots voices into research, advocacy and policy conversations on women’s mental health, postpartum depression, gender and media harm. What began in her community has since reached the World Bank Youth Summit, Forum on Information and Democracy, Rockefeller Foundation and other global platforms—showing that grassroots evidence can influence conversations far beyond its starting point. She is GSMA APAC Women Digital Leadership Silver Award Winner in an intervention and innovation in AI. Goldin Global Fellow, Earned Peace Ambassador Title from Institute of Economy and Peace, Sydney. She has connected young Journalists from Global South and discussed Mental Health reporting gap on the bigger platform.