Youth Delegate (Alankrita Dayal), GFMD's Technologies Roundtable

For the first time ever in the history of the global GFMD summit, UC Berkeley Alumni Alankrita Dayal, who is the Executive Director of Program yoUr Future (PUF) and GFMD’s Youth Delegate, has been invited as a Speaker to lead the Leveraging New Technologies Roundtable and present the youth perspective, spanning over 55 countries, on how nations can best leverage new technologies to empower their migrants and underrepresented, at-risk populations.

At age 17, Alankrita Dayal founded our organization which now helps over 20,000 students, and particularly young women and minorities from immigrant and refugee backgrounds, acquire both the technical and the non-technical skills necessary for their retention and success in STEM careers. Our organization has been congratulated by the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth as a scalable model that can be replicated into other regions around the world, too, to benefit an even wider population.

Alankrita’s interventions at GFMD focus on key priorities to help migrants overcome language and cultural barriers, better access social welfare services, and prepare for the labor market through educational and financial interventions.

The GFMD Summit shapes the global debate on migration and development within the countries that are a part of the United Nations. The interventions that Alankrita has delivered at the Technologies Roundtable have been described as powerful and visionary and are equipping civic society stakeholders, government officials, and business executives with data-driven, equity-focussed solutions, programs, and actionable policies that can best be adopted and scaled to benefit their communities at large.

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