Dolly Rateshwar
Managing Director,
The Dharavi DREAM Project-AfterSchool of Hip-Hopr
With 10+ years of work experience at some of the best MNC's - Google, LinkedIn, and MySpace as one of the early team members in India. Dolly has also been a founding team member at Qyuki - a media startup by Shekhar Kapur, AR Rahman and Samir Bangara.
Led the ""New Avenues and Operations"" at the MIT Media Lab India Initiative where inter-disciplinary efforts lead to futuristic innovation way ahead of time. Also, a Co-founder at Tesseract Imaging - a spin-off from MIT Media Lab India Initiative
While she was always working towards giving back to the community in the form of teaching students on the street since she was in college, she has finally focused her career on delivering social impact through ""The Dharavi Dream Project's #AfterSchoolofHiphop"" - an initiative to give hip-hop artists (under-served talent) of Asia's biggest slum a platform :
to have free and easy access to share one's thoughts and expressions through music, dance and art form
to give a voice to celebrate and a stage to showcase their talent not only in Dharavi of Mumbai but Dharavi's of the world. She has recently launched 1st ever quality recording studio in the hart of Dharavi called TDDP Studios to empower under-resourced Hip-Hop talents with impactful resources.