Saumya Roy Author

Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur based in Mumbai. In 2010, she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai's poorest micro-entrepreneurs; through this she met the community who depend on Deonar. Her writing has appeared in Forbes India magazine, wsj.com and Bloomberg News among others, and she has contributed a chapter to Dharavi: The Cities Within (HarperCollins, 2013), an anthology of essays on Asia's largest slum. Saumya received residencies from the Rockerfeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Blue Mountain Center, Carey Institute for Global Good and Sangam House for the writing of Mountain Tales.