For TEDxStXaviersMumbai 2017, we aim to create a culture of rich and diverse idea-based discussions within our community. We want to provide students and professors with a global platform like none other to share their unique ideas and talents. Our aim is to make TEDxStXaviersMumbai an annual and flagship event of this college.

St. Xavier's College
5 Mahapalika Marg
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001
India

Aditi Agrawal and Anjali Menon

Designers

Aditi Agrawal and Anjali Menon are founders of Gudgudee, a design studio that creates inclusive playgrounds for children. They are passionate about transforming the urban landscape for children in India with their imaginative play spaces that keep in mind the special children as well. Aditi and Anjali, both are trained furniture designers from the National Institute of Design. Their tryst with playgrounds began while they were still students at the design school and realised how little attention is paid to design of public spaces.

Kartikeya Tutwala

Sustainable Community Builder

Kartikeya Tutwala works towards building sustainable communities, by understanding their stories and culture. He graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 2015, and since then has been working with the farming community in Vidarbha, Maharashttra to understand their problems, and explore new dimensions with respect to agricultural practices.

Kavin Shah

Student

Kavin is a student of Economics and Statistics at St. Xavier's. He enjoys engaging in discussions about Sports Economics, a field that he believes deserves more attention. His idea of love is watching his favourite football team play on a lazy Sunday. His hobbies unsurprisingly include video gaming, cars, and debating.

Meher Moos

Traveller

Meher Moos is a solo woman traveller from Mumbai who has visited as many as 180 different countries in 50 years. Having worked with Air India briefly and then in the field of tourism, she has run through 18 different passports in her lifetime. She is also credited with being the first Indian woman to have visited Antarctica.

Naved 'Naezy' Shaikh

Rapper

One of the prominent faces in India's emerging hip-hop scene is a rising artist called Naved Shaikh, who goes by the stage name of 'Naezy'. His style of rapping kills two birds with one stone: Gives you food for thought and also gives you a sick beat to groove to. Born in a Kurla chawl, he took the sticks and stones of a rough childhood and transformed them into stories that have led him to perform at NH7 Weekender and beyond

Pranoti Chirmuley

Sociologist

Pranoti Chirmuley teaches Sociology and Anthropology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prior to her teaching career, she worked as a Researcher at TISS, CSER and finally with the Packard Foundation, New Delhi. She has completed two levels of Reiki healing and is an amateur potter.

Rhea Lopez

Elephant Campaign Manager

Rhea Lopez is the elephant campaign manager for Wildlife SOS, a charity that has been working since 1995 to protect, conserve and rehabilitate elephants, tigers, leopards and other wild animals across India. As part of the Wildlife SOS elephant team, Rhea Lopez helps coordinate elephant campaigns and monitoring elephants that are selected for rescue. Her most rewarding moments are while accompanying rescued elephants on their journeys to their forever home at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation & Care Centre in Mathura.

Veydaant Khanna

Student

Veydaant is a student of Economics and Sociology at St. Xavier's college. He has been involved with speech and drama, and other performance arts since his school days. He is passionate about political science and art. His hobbies include reading, writing, watching football and spreading leftist propaganda via memes.