DOLLY RATESHWAR
CO-FOUNDER
THE DHARAVI DREAM PROJECT
With 8+ years of work experience at some of the best MNC's - Google, LinkedIn, and MySpace as one of the early founding team members in India. Dolly has also been a founding team member at Qyuki - a media startup by Shekhar Kapur, AR Rahman and Samir Bangara. Since 5 years, she is serving as a Co-Founder at TheDharaviDreamProject -an AfterSchoolofHiphop in the bylanes of Dharavi.
Led the "New Avenues and Operations" at the MIT Media Lab India Initiative where inter-disciplinary efforts lead to futuristic innovation way ahead of time. Also, a Co-founder at Tesseract Imaging - a spin-off from MIT Media Lab India Initiative.
While she was always working towards giving back to the community in the form of teaching students on the street since she was in college, she has finally focused her career on delivering social impact through "The Dharavi Dream Project's #AfterSchoolofHiphop" - an initiative to give hip-hop artists (under-resourced talent) of Asia's 2nd biggest slum a platform : to have free and easy access to share one's thoughts and expressions through music, dance and art form
a voice to celebrate and a stage to showcase their talent not only in Dharavi of Mumbai but Dharavi's of the world.