Shaan was India’s representative to Miss Earth 2017. She represented India in Manila, the Philippines in October 2017 in the world’s third-biggest and environmentally inclined beauty pageant – Miss Earth, where she was adjudged to be among the top 16 in environmental awareness and intelligence among 85 representatives from different countries.
She is also the winner of Top Model India 2016 and represented the country in Top Model Worldwide in London, UK and was shortlisted to walk for the London Fashion Week Spring Summer 18 collection in September 2017.
In 2019, Shaan was chosen to be the Global Ambassador of World Merit – a global network of millennial working to solve problems in their communities in alignment with the sustainable development goals. Shaan represented the community at the World Merit Summit at Morocco, the Misk Global Forum in Saudi Arabia and the Asia Pacific Climate Week in Thailand.
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Shaan has been an advocate for education equity, gender equality and climate action – and has worked to sensitise thousands of people about sustainable development goals through online and offline mediums.
Shaan was selected from all of South Asia as one of 15 climate journalists to report for the 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Sri Lanka by Climate Tracker, an international youth journalism organization. Furthermore, she mentored budding climate journalists from South Asia in Bangladesh in 2017.
Shaan is also a Climate Reality Leader, trained in Houston Texas by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President of the United States Mr Al Gore and his team at the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training in 2016. She was one among 5 others who received the chance to have a one on one call with Mr Al Gore to discuss the climate crisis and role of youth.
In 2012, Shaan was selected to be a part of the prestigious Teach For India Fellowship where she taught in the slums of Mumbai and Pune as a full-time Teacher, Mentor and Communications Professional for 4 years.
She has contributed consistently as a Facilitator and Mentor at the Asia Pacific Youth Exchange Programme focused on social innovation and entrepreneurship organized by Urban Youth Academy and UNDP since 2017 and was also a facilitator for the Jagriti Yatra – an 8000 km train journey across India, spanning 15 days – in which 500 delegates had the chance to learn about social entrepreneurship.
In 2018 she was awarded the Youth Icon of the Year Award by the Navjyoti India Foundation given by the first female police officer and Raman Magsaysay Awardee Dr Kiran Bedi.
Shaan has previously volunteered and collaborated with over 10 different organizations working for the education and environment in the past decade. She has also served (and continues to serve) as an ambassador for World Wide Fund For Nature MP and CG state office for Earth Hour 2016/17/18/19/20.
In the year 2020, she was chosen to be the Goodwill Ambassador for the National Endeavour for Student Transformation an Initiative of The Akshaya Patra Foundation.
By degree, Shaan is a film-maker and a graduate in Media Studies from Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication, India’s premier undergraduate institution for Media Studies.
She currently serves as a Programme Manager to Wedu, an organization dedicated to providing leadership development opportunities, education funding and mentorship to women across the Asian region and leads the Outreach and Selection of Rising Stars from the Asian Region and the Global Mentorship Programme in the organisation.
