Radhika is the Joint Vice Chairperson of The Shri Ram Schools. Under the aegis of Shri Educare Limited, an education consultancy company, she has been instrumental in setting up The Shri Ram Millennium Schools in NCR & The Shri Ram Early Years. She also serves as the Chairperson of the Indian Blind Sports Association & JPM Senior Secondary School for the Blind, the Jt. Secretary of The Blind Relief Association &  the Hon. General Secretary of Delhi Crafts Council.

Radhika is a trustee of CAPED – Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Early Detection that has been working in the area of awareness creation for women-centric cancers. Radhika has been a member of the steering committee of CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Program since 2014. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Saajha.

She was conferred with the ‘Women of the Decade in Community Leadership’ Award by the Women Economic Forum in December 2019. She has also been mentioned as one of the change-makers in the book ‘Why People Give’ by Ratna & Suhasini Vira. Radhika earned a degree in Bachelors of Commerce from Delhi University. Outside of work, she enjoys music, pottery and running half marathons.

In this interview with Deepak Nanda from CSRBOX, she talks about the following points:

1. Can you tell us briefly about your journey as a philanthropist, an educationist, and a change-maker?

2. How would you define your association with various causes and organizations that you have been supporting actively?

3. How do you see the passion for doing good continuing and what is it that keeps you going? How can we make millennials look at problems around them and try to empathize more with the people around them?

4. How do you see philanthropy and spirit for doing good evolving in India and what could be better avenues to inspire more people to come forward?

5. What are some of the values that you focus on instilling in the students at The Shri Ram Schools and how do they impact education?

6. How do you see India's business community responding to the recent pandemic and what are more avenues that we could explore to do better?

7. What suggestions would you like to give to organizations who want to give and be part of a larger impact and yet are struggling to do so

8. Is there any personal mission that you would like to engage in the coming years to begin transforming things?

Impact-Talk is a series of views and interviews of CSR heads, impact leaders and change-makers, addressing development challenges in India. If you have an impact-maker in your network, please suggest/share details at csr@ngobox.org