Keynote speaker/moderator and business consultant who helps you find purpose in your work, take action through unconventional conversations, and ultimately make an impact in the world. www.deeptisharma.com

Barnard’s first-ever Entrepreneur in Residence, helping young women & non binary students journeys into entrepreneurship. This includes advising students on their business plans, validating their product ideas, getting an initial product to market, and raising external financing. Developed and executed our first-ever on-campus incubator program to assist fellow students in realizing, expanding, and scaling their ideas into operational businesses.

Worked on repositioning the brand to highlight focus on sustainability and local diversity by building the corporate social responsibility strategy, and launched their organic social media strategy. Helped build the New York City restaurant partner & corporate client market.

In 2021 I ran to represent New York City Council to represent Queens’ 24th District as a first-gen American, born and raised in Flushing.

FoodtoEat is a market place for corporate catering. We cater team meals for corporates using the best local restaurants, food trucks and caterers. Our vendor network focuses on immigrant-owned & women businesses from across New York City.

Bikky is a data platform for restaurants, helping them discover loyal customers, leverage real-time feedback to improve operations, and grow their business.

BCNA (www.nybcna.org) is a CNN Top 10 microlender that creates a pathway to self-sufficiency for immigrants, refugees, women, and others by providing access to capital, specialized training, technical assistance and personalized coaching. To date, BCNA has helped over 4000 businesses and provided over $10mm in loans.

NYC Food & Beverage Hospitality Council's mission is to unify and support the New York City food and beverage industry by recruiting talent, facilitating training programs, simplifying the regulatory process, and equipping food service organizations with fundamental business skills through the expertise of the Advisory Board.

The Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, is a network of Hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements, and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.

The LAMP envisions a world of critical and active digital media participants, in which peopleare prepared to work, learn, socialize and create in the 21st century. Since 2007, The LAMP haspursued this vision by educating and equipping over 3,000 youth, parents and educators toshape the media landscape through hands-on learning. We conduct workshops during andafter school, through the summer and on weekends, hold free public events and trainings, anddevelop interactive online resources to support media learning in classrooms and householdsnationwide. For a critical mass.

Mountaintop is revitalizing K-12 education by encouraging students to discover their callings, then backing them up through the creative journey that follows.

* Performed political research, briefings, editing documents* Communicated with elected officials daily on campaign strategy and operations