Ms. Anita Iyer Narayan

Ms. Anita Iyer Narayan,

Accessibility, Diversity & Inclusion consultant, and Disability Rights Advocate: Accessavvy.
Founder, sponsor and Managing Trustee: EKansh Trust, Pune
Inclusive Environments & Access Auditing course- CAE, London.

TEDx speaker

AIESEC COCA COLA YOUTH SPEAK speaker.

EMPANELLED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for Access audits of Government Buildings [EKansh Trust]

Training of Access Auditors

Helen Keller -NCPEDP - Lemon Tree Award for promotion of employment for PwD, 2015

World Women Leadership Congress award 2015, 2017.

Inorbit Woman Achiever Award

Akhil Brahmin Madhyavarti Sanstha

Felicitated by several NGOs working for PwD

Visiting Faculty –inclusive design –MITD, Symbiosis institute for Liberal Art. Designed and conducted a certificate course on Disability Awareness & Inclusion in collaboration with St Mira’s College for Girls, Pune. Has presented papers and been part of many conferences on Inclusive Education. Conceptualised and published colouring pages and story books to promote inclusion among children from an early age. Conceptualised and Conducted workshops and contests in several colleges for students, professionals and professors of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Management, Design,law, etc.

India’s first contest in Barrier Free Architecture

India’s first contest in adaptive clothing design

India’s first colouring and story book featuring children and adult with disabilities

Pune’s first Job fair for PwD subsequently followed by 2 more.

Pune’s first inclusive play equipment donated and installed at Ahilyabai Holkar Udyan, Katraj

Personally collating and publicising the first catalogue on Adaptive Clothing Designs for PwD.

Several leading magazines, Doordarshan and newspapers have covered the work done by her and her NGO.

The few major focuses under the banner of her NGO are

Accessibility: barrier free environments

Early intervention and education advocacy for children with disabilities

Sign language for all

Raining and placements of persons with disability

Sensitization and awareness workshops for students and professionals in architecture,management, psychology, education, law, etc.

Adaptive clothing design

Accessible play equipment in public parks

Inclusive education for children with disabilities.

Access audits: Cochin Shipyard, Mumbai Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj airports, Godrej One,

Godrej Agrovet - Baramati & Pune, HSBC - Pune, BNY Mellon – Pune & Chennai, Bajaj Allianze, Siemens – Pune, Mahindra’s warehouse, British Council Libraries – Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, etc.

Sensitization via Job fairs and workshops: Mphasis, BNY Mellon, HSBC, Cognizant, Wipro, Emcure Pharma, AllScripts, Infosys, Thermax, Forbes Marshall, Persistent, Cummins, Eaton, Praj Industries, Hightemp Furnaces, Symantec, Coca Cola, Sungard, Amdocs, Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Vehicles, Tata Autocomps and many others across India.

Extensive work has been done independently, with the NGO and the government in all of the above verticals. A cursory Google Search for “Anita Iyer EKansh Trust Pune” will bring up many videos and articles.

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekansh/