Michelle Abraham
Michelle Abraham
Overview
Michelle Abraham is a postgraduate in Forestry Management from Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. She works with Villgro Innovations Foundation (www.villgro.org) - an incubator of social enterprises which supports them by providing seed funding, mentoring, capacity building & other business advisory services. She has played an active role in building the social enterprise eco-system in India. She has been part of the founding team at Unconvention (www.unconvention.co.in). Launched in 2009 and after 3 editions, it is now one of the premier Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship platforms of India. She has also spearheaded Wantrapreneur – a social business plan competition to unearth startup & early growth social businesses. Currently she is leading Unconvention|Ls - Local versions of Unconvention, in various cities of India. She also leads the Young Innovator Program which is an initiative to identify & support young future social entrepreneurs. Prior to Villgro, she worked with AMS Consulting Pvt. Ltd where she evaluated & monitored the Rural Development Programme of 10 districts of Uttar Pradesh. She has also worked with an international agency – Aide et Action, where she was responsible for establishment of vocational education centers in North India