Girl Be Heard
Aruna Cadambi serves as Vice President at Align Social Impact and holds the position of Director, Advancement & Innovation at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, Aruna is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Girl Be Heard. Previous experience includes leading Business Planning & Operations for Social Impact at Meta, where responsibilities encompassed managing a $50M budget and improving operational efficiency. At PwC, Aruna managed a skills-based volunteering program and contributed to significant initiatives supporting underrepresented college students. Early career roles involved work with Deloitte, USAID, and Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on public-private partnerships, international development, and policy analysis. Aruna holds a Master of Science in Public Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University and multiple undergraduate and professional certificates related to social innovation and diversity in the workplace.
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Girl Be Heard
Girl Be Heard (GBH) develops, amplifies and celebrates the voices of young women through socially conscious theatre-making. Girl Be Heard believes that if a girl can change her own life, she can change the lives of girls everywhere. Because 6:10 girls have or will experience physical or sexual violence in their lives, Girl Be Heard (GBH) was born out of the systemic need to keep girls safe and provide a community for healing. In addition to creating a fearless space for girls to speak honestly, develop trust and share personal stories, these shared experiences raise awareness about gender-based violence and the silence. By encouraging girls to be heard, GBH nurtures young women to become leaders and activists in a global movement to empower and raise the status of women worldwide. GBH is renowned for its innovative theatre and writing workshops with youth from New York City’s most underserved communities where one in three families live below the poverty line. Girl Be Heard’s girl-empowerment program allows youth to express and heal from their numerous traumas (including: emotional and physical bullying, body image dysmorphia, low self-esteem, domestic violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, sexual abuse).