page_title: Rashmi Tiwari
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Rashmi Tiwari / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Rashmi Tiwari chosen as "The Good Crusader" by Times NOW
context_page_description: Dr. Rashmi Tiwari is the Founder and Director of the Aahan Tribal Foundation of India, working to dismantle the machinery of trafficking. She is Fellow of Vital Voices, Fellow of SIMP and a Certified Leadership Coach from NeuroLeadership Institute.
  She was one of the emerging businesswomen from India under the Fortune/US State Department Leadership Mentorship Program. She was mentored by Anne Mulcahy of the Xerox Corporation.
context_section_description: Tiwari was born in 1972 in an affluent family, but later raised by single mother with no house and no source of income. She grew up in a house in Varanasi which was just 3.5 x 5.5 m.
  Tiwari had to face discrimination and social stigmas. She was a posthumous child and after evicting her house in Mumbai.
   She spent a year in Kanpur with one of her aunt and then moved to Varanasi where she completed her education and earned  Ph.D degree in Economics from Banaras Hindu University which was awarded in the year 1998-99.
caption: Tiwari was chosen as "The Good Crusader" by Times NOW for her work on anti-trafficking of tribal girls through Aahan Foundation.[8]
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