Archana manages global partnerships at Ashoka South Asia. She also leads Nourishing Schools, an Ashoka initiative that aims to develop young changemakers who can take charge of improving their own nutrition and that of their communities. Archana was selected as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence by the SELCO Foundation for the Kowdi Kutumba project in 2015, which aims to make the traditional North Karnataka handicraft of Kowdi a sustainable means of livelihood for women with low incomes. She believes that today’s youth take the lead in bringing about change, and worked on an initiative through which children in rural Maharashtra took charge of their own nutrition through a school canteen that served only healthy snacks.