Sumaira Abdulali

Sumaira Abdulali is an award-winning activist and writer based in Mumbai whose original writing on environmental issues has been published in magazines and newspapers Forbes India, Outlook, Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, DNA and others. She helped shape a 6-month awareness campaign against noise pollution in partnership with the Times of India in 2016, worked with other journalists and contributed articles towards the campaign.

She has participated in and helped shape documentary films on sand mining and noise pollution for Artes, DW, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

She is a seven times TEDx Speaker and has spoken at numerous colleges, Universities and other platforms including Harvard University, Bombay University, Delhi University, the Indian Institutes of Technology, Shoolini University, BITS Pilani, the National Institute of Design and others. She has also been a speaker at events of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Sumaira was honoured by an Ashoka Fellowship in 2008, Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice 2010 and Green Crusader Olive Crown Award 2015. She has created awareness on environmental issues like sand mining, noise pollution and climate change for over two decades individually and through an NGO she founded, Awaaz Foundation.