Saloni Goel

A dreamer, a reader, and a Delhite, Saloni is a Young India Fellow, Class of 2020 and an Economics graduate from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She is someone who is always looking out for new things to try out, ideas to work on and finding people crazy enough to try them out with. From very early on, she has always been very firm on creating and walking on her path. 

The month Saloni finished with her board examination, she decided to go out and explore the real world. A world where she could finally practise what she learnt in school. That month quickly turned into a year and she realised with her engagement in the social sector, her passion for impact through entrepreneurship and her capability to work with large teams with a collective vision. Her passion led her to spend the summer working on her ideas with a diverse team advising certain university clubs on content strategy and management.

Her experiences and goals led her to lead International Partnerships at MASH Project foundation at the age of 20 and working on a startup idea alongside. Things changed soon though when she joined the Young India Fellowship and realised that her engagement in the sector has just started. She learnt things she never knew existed, understood her weaknesses and with the world facing conflicts and then a pandemic, realised her need to work at the grass-root level with SANG, a Covid relief initiative she co-founded with another fellow. Along with SANG, Saloni is now exploring the social sector as a freelancer and is currently working on projects in volunteer engagement, fundraising, CSR, communications and research.

If you ask her what are the things she definitely won't die before doing, she would say, "building the home that her mom dreams of" and "push herself to actualise the impact she can see herself making along with people committed to service".

If you ask her friends to describe her, all of them would have one common characteristic to describe her with: Weird. Weirdly arrogant, weirdly passionate and weirdly sensitive. That is okay with her. After all, "It's weird not to be weird:p”.