WHO
We Are
Our Team.
A team that is defined by passion, expertise, and the outdoors. It has people who are committed to preparing the individual to become more responsible towards the environment.
Preeti Chauhan
Founder & Managing Director
Little Green World | Navikru Eco Foundation
Preeti Chauhan is a social development entrepreneur by profession, a civil engineer by qualification, an environmentalist by belief, and a zero-waste practitioner by passion. A Mumbai girl at heart, who dons various caps with a charming smile. Her journey from being a corporate employee to being a social entrepreneur in Ladakh, India, has been an amalgamation of adventure with self-reflection and awakening.
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Preeti founded Little Green World and Navikru Eco Foundation which not only provides awareness but also provides sustainable alternatives to adopt a sustainable life. Preeti also worked as a Researcher on National Geographic Explorer Project and works as consultant with organizations in sustainability field.
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Tajamul Akhtar is a qualified Mental health social worker from the Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. Since 2021, she has been a menstrual health and hygiene educator. Since 2023, Tajamul has been serving as Assistant Project Lead at Little Green World and a Sustainability Educator at Navikru Eco Foundation for the Wipro Earthian program.
Tajamul works on the ground with students and teachers and her expertise extends to conducting group and individual counseling sessions connecting with the environment. Tajamul hells from Drass region of Kargil and her local knowledge helps the organizations to bring holistic solutions.
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Tajamul Akhtar
Assistant Project Lead & Sustainability Educator
Little Green World | Navikru Eco Foundation
Our Mentor.
Our mentor is someone who allows us to see the hope in ourselves and help us nurture the Little Green World mission.
Dr. Katie Conlon
Katie Conlon, Ph.D., researches waste streams from the perspective of reconnecting an awareness of waste with social and ecological systems and closing the loop on waste externalities. She is a zero-waste advocate, National Geographic Explorer, Fulbright Fellow, and National Science Foundation Fellow associated as a researcher with Portland State University (USA).
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Ms. Conlon has worked and researched across the Asian region on waste and sustainability issues in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Vietnam, Japan, Nepal, and India. Over the past 12 years, she has spent time learning about the Dharma and visiting Buddhist sites across South and East Asia, as well as volunteered at monasteries in Nepal.
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