Women Game Changers - Season 3 by Raunaq Roy

Aditi Saigal | Dot Musician | Actress Dot’s song was played in Netflix’s Valentine's Day Special Trailer 2019. Dot.’s sound is unique and has a niche of its own. To box her into a genre is a disservice to her esoteric compositions. Her YouTube channel is filled with her compositions with topics ranging from anecdotes like the song Asymmetrical which is about Mrs Pearson’s Psychology class where sh...

Hina Saiyada Head of Games She won the Unreal Engine Women Creators Program fellowship in 2021. She is currently working on a feminist Utopian game called LadyLand.

Medha Mukherjee Founder | CEO | Feministaa Media Medha Mukerji is the Founder of Feminstaa, a media platform that supports Indian Women Achievers with the vision to empower women to work. Throughout Medha’s career, she has worked with two women bosses who supported and mentored her. This made her realize the need for a professional mentoring platform for Indian Working Women

Richa Singh Co-Founder | CEO Through the unwavering success of FanClash, Richa Singh has debunked the widespread stereotypical notions and proved that women can lead in the business of gaming and become among the key industry players. With a wealth of corporate finance experience from her previous roles, Richa is building FanClash to elevate the Indian startup ecosystem by creating a global produc...

Ronkini Gupta playback singer a Hindustani Classical Vocal exponent, is known for her, versatile style, pitch-perfect sweetness, and prowess, where she smoothly switches between singing pure kheyaal and playback. Having trained under exponents from the Gwalior and Kirana gharanas, her style of rendition is a combination of both blended with her unique expression. From being a winner of Saregamapa...

Kangkana Talukdar, a Game Streamer hailing from Guwahati, Assam, rose to fame as the youngest female gamer from India after starting her game-streaming career in 2019. She goes by the gaming name of Mystic Ignite and is an aspiring esports player. Talukdar is known for engaging with her audience during her streams and can often be found playing games with her fans. She was encouraged to pursue gam...

Ravina Rawal, Founder & CEO Dead Ant With over 20 years of experience in media and entertainment, Ravina Rawal is the former Head of Digital for Viacom18’s Youth & English Entertainment portfolio, which includes Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, MTV Beats, and Colors Infinity, and former editor/editor-in-chief of several leading publications in India, including Sunday Guardian20, Motherland and MT...

Closing this list off is Temsu Clover, a promising new talent from Nagaland. Featured on the ‘Equal Indie India’ playlist on Spotify, Clover recently won the Best Pop Song Title at the Nagaland Music Awards. Classed in the growing bedroom pop music genre, she was featured on the Maed In India podcast, making people look forward to what she creates in 2023.

Product Manager at Google focused on Ai I lead product at Convai, where we build perceptual and conversational NPCs ready to act and tell a story! Before Convai, I product-managed synthetic data generation at NVIDIA’s Omniverse Replicator and honed my skills in deep learning for embedded devices. I have experience accelerating eBay’s image recommendation system and have conducted research at the U...

Sukriti has made a name for herself as a playback singer with songs like Kar gayi Chull and Prakriti has sung for films like Alone, the musical sisters have made waves singing together, especially with their latest work, an Indian remix of Dua Lipa’s Levitating. The sisters are like two peas in a pod but their idiosyncrasies are individualistic 

From being a child prodigy to establishing herself as one of the most talented artists of her generation, Priya Saraiya has had a remarkable journey in the music industry. Priya is the voice behind some of the most soulful songs over the last decade like Saibo, Piya O re Piya, Jeena Laga Hoon & Sun Sathiya.

A hip-hop movement started in 2014 running for the last 8 years in the bylanes of Dharavi – Asia’s largest Ghetto to discover, nurture, mentor, and showcase emerging under-resource Hip Hop talent from Dharavi and across the world. The Dharavi Dream Project – was sown as an idea for under-resourced kids in Dharavi to have free and easy access to the “After school of Hip-Hop”. Values derived from th...

An India-based Ukrainian, Dar Gai made headlines when she was roped in as the intimacy coordinator for the film Gehraiyaan which starred Deepika Padukone in the lead. This was a first for a mainstream film. The intimacy coordinator primarily makes actors comfortable for intimate scenes and conducts various workshops to bring artists at ease. She has also worked as a producer, writer, and director...

She started her career at the age of 15 and is an Independent Rapper-Songwriter- Composer- Recording Artist who dons multiple hats in the Indian Film-Music Industry. She has worked on some hit Film & Music projects. With the blend of music and chemistry, Deane has grabbed multiple big features in various Bollywood movie songs. She is a professionally trained & certified Vocalist from RockS...

Has won “Album of the year” in 2021 for “Atrangi Re” for which she was a music supervisor and a playback singer. The 23-year-old is making waves as she was hand-picked by A R Rehman to be in his team and works on all his projects.

She was one of the top 6 finalists in The Stage and has performed in several festivals like the NH7 Weekender, etc.

Mariam is a game developer with over 18 years of experience in building games for entertainment, educational, and learning purposes. Her current role requires her to be a bridge between clients and her team for game development and delivery, but she continues her passion for writing game code every day. The games built under her leadership for Life Sciences have been acknowledged by industry exper...

After working a corporate job for several years, Aabha then realized that her calling was music and went on to be the Founder of an eclectic folk band called Sophistication. Her song Hukus Bukus was used in the web series Family Man and she won an award for alongside getting international recognition.

An honors degree in communications followed by a summer scholarship at Gallaudet Washington DC to study ASL with dance and theatre, Tess Joseph is a well-known casting director in India who has cast some of the big names in Mira Nair’s Namesake and went on to work with several acclaimed filmmakers like Doug Liman, Ang Lee, Wes Anderson among others. From bringing Indian stars like Priyanka Bose, a...

With a career spanning 25 years, Priya has become synonymous with work that has broken stereotypes of what is means to be a woman in films. From shooting action films like Airlift and the yet-to-release Pippa to being the foremost underwater cinematographer in India, Priya has truly been a game changer in her field.

Nayyar, a Harvard Alumnus and a career sales personality is the Senior Vice President and Head of the Brands & Music business at UMG, India SA. Nayyar & her teams work with Global and local A-lister clients to create award-winning campaigns for them. From artists and music to events & sponsorships, to platforms & outreach to products & marketing,  Nayyar leads a foremost agency...

Rianjali is a NYC-born and raised, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter/composer with a mission to change South Asian independent musicians’ perspective in the diaspora, Rianjali was a former domestic violence case worker until she found her ‘pinch me’ moment when she caught the Oscar award-winning musician A.R. Rahman’s attention and was asked to work alongside her musical hero. Rianjali has colla...

Avanti Nagral is on a mission to create songs, stories, and conversations that challenge societal norms. Avanti’s artistry, coming-of-age empowerment pop, draws inspiration from her background in Indian Classical, Broadway, and Gospel music. She was the? rst in the world to pursue a dual degree at both Harvard University and Berklee College of Music, changing the narrative of a creative educationa...

Led the integration for 23 Disney IPs. Founding member of BigFatPheonix Interactive. As a game designer with a passion for storytelling and kids’ media, she has designed fun-first games for learning and change. Her focus is to create experiences – both in the products and work cultures I build – that are focused on empathy, kindness, and integrity. Currently a Co-Founder of Bigfatphoenix Interacti...

A veteran artist manager in Bollywood, Lily Ahluwalia, a two-decade-long career in entertainment, managed artists such as Manchanda, Shalmali Kholgade, Priya Saraiya, and Clinton Cerejo, among many others.