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Mariam Nusrat from Pakistan Makes it to Forbes ‘Next 1000 List’

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Mariam Nusrat Adil, a Pakistani entrepreneur, has been featured in the “Forbes Next 1000 List”. Only those individuals make it to the list who own start-ups or businesses with fewer than $10 million in revenue. However, they have unlimited potential to inspire others.

Mariam’s accomplishments were acknowledged by Forbes’ editors. In addition, a panel of top business minds and entrepreneurial superstars also recognized her achievements. Next 1000 List celebrates inspiring and bold entrepreneurs who are redefining what it is like to run a business in today’s world. This list is a first-of-a-kind initiative by Forbes.

Currently, Mariam lives in Virginia, USA. She holds two Master’s degree in economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and George Washington University in the US. She is the founder of GRID.

Her entrepreneurial journey began six years ago, in 2015,  when she came up with a not-for-profit arm for GRID – Gaming Revolution for Inspiring Development. It is from that moment, her work has been honoured across multiple platforms.

What is GRID?

GRID is an award-winning social-impact gaming studio. The team is responsible for creating mobile games that instruct, involve and empower people towards positive behaviour change.

For the last six years, Mariam is leading a team of game developers and designers from Pakistan. She has managed to develop alongside her team low-cost mobile games that encourage positive behaviour. Up till now, GRID has produced eight portfolio games on topics including reproductive health, climate change, health pandemics, animal welfare, STEM learning and structural racism in four languages.

GRID’s platform Breshna is their current focus where they want to work on democratising content creation through video games. They have managed to $75,000 in a pre-seed round from 11 Tribes V. They are launching with Game Jam on 16 next month.

It is notable to mention that Mariam has also presented GRID at several high-level forums, including the CGIU Meetings and two Tedx events, and two sessions supervised by former US President Clinton.

British – Pakistani Amna Akhtar Featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for her Digital Platform, Girl Dreamer. Read the full story here:

British-Pakistani Amna Akhtar, the co-founder of Girl Dreamer, has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 List in the Social Impact category. Girl Dreamer is a digital platform that caters to personal and professional development programs for women of colour.

British – Pakistani Amna Akhtar Featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for her Digital Platform, Girl Dreamer

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British – Pakistani Amna Akhtar Featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for her Digital Platform, Girl Dreamer

by Laiba
written by Laiba

British-Pakistani Amna Akhtar, the co-founder of Girl Dreamer, has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 List in the Social Impact category. Girl Dreamer is a digital platform that caters to personal and professional development programs for women of color.

“Over 12,000 young women of color turn to Girl Dreamer for personal and professional development programs. As the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Amna Akhtar is building the type of network she wished she had when she was younger (including an all-women-of-color longboard crew),” her profile states on the official Forbes site.

Every year, thousands of nominations and recommendations come in from former Under 30 alumni and industry experts, who review young innovators and prepare the lists. The list of Forbes 30 Under 30 features young innovators with their professional endeavors that directly positively impact society and bring about a change.

In a post, Akhtar and the team announced their latest achievement. The post said, “Since we are still and always will be in the business of celebrating women, our very own Amna has made this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 List for her contribution to Social Impact, through GirlDreamer.”.

“Each day, here at GD, we get to experience the brilliance of Amna as a co-founder and creative director, but beyond that, as one of the original GirlDreamers- she co-created alongside our CEO, Kiran, a space they wish existed. We are so proud and grateful that we get to cultivate this community with such powerhouses,” the post concluded.

A post on Girl Dreamer’s official Instagram says that “Cultivating this community has been an incredible journey for us- it’s one of our greatest accomplishments, being able to support young women who look like us, have similar, similar experiences, desire for change, and who are committed to showing up for themselves and their communities. When we started GirlDreamer, we never imagined that this would be the space we would have cultivated- and yet, here we are.
And as we get to champion even more women through our Dream Fund, supported by our recently launched Merch, we want to remind you that the vision that won’t let you rest, the one you have been hiding deep within, the one that makes your heart smile but your hands tremble, that one, run towards it, or walk- but either way, guide yourself towards the beat of that drum. It’s worth it.”

Pakistani Chef Zahra Khan Makes it to ‘Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe List’

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