Harsha Jain is a Lead - Impact and ESG at Avaana Capital. They is proficient in Marwari, Bengali and English. Colleagues describe them as "Had the pleasure of working with Harsha at various stages at Make A Difference. She is very passionate and meticulous about the work she does. She is a people person and a good listener. She has the skills to mobilise and inspire a group towards a common goal and a pleasure to work with." and "I had the opportunity to work with Harsha during our tenure as transition readiness and aftercare city managers for the Bangalore chapter of Make A Difference. Harsha takes the meaning of "Leadership by ownership" to the next level! She has always thought long term and she does not sacrifice long term value for short term results. She has always acted on behalf of her entire company, beyond just her own team. No job has ever been too small for her to do. We were given the gargantuan task of building out and scaling a new, never-before-seen project in the city. If we were successful, our model would be adopted by all the cities in which our organization is present in the country. Harsha's enabled us to successfully design volunteer training modules which were immediately adopted by all 23 cities, impacting over 70 at-risk students. Her type-A personality and focus on process efficiency proved to be an important catalyst in the scaling of the aftercare project from it's pilot stage (impacting 2 students) in Bangalore to effectively capturing 50 shelter home students while ensuring zero students dropped out of the program and 100% of them moving into higher education. 10 of the funded students were seen grabbing internship opportunities as well. Harsha was a mentor to several students herself. She used her economics background to coach several girls in the shelter home and inspired them to succeed in the subject. Several of the impacted students took on a bachelors in business upon graduating high school. Her passion and experience with the students drove her to take on the mantle of Director of Transition Readiness and Aftercare in the organization the following year to ensure the development of effective strategy and consistent program execution across all 23 cities for over 4000+ students. Her passion for the development sector can be easily noted by even a single interaction with her. I am sure that Harsha will prove to be a key asset to any organization that she is a part of. I give her my full recommendation."