Edu-GIRLS ANNUAL GALA 2026

On behalf the Gala Leadership and Board of Directors, we look forward to sharing a wonderful evening with you at our Annual Edu-GIRLS Gala on Sunday, September 20, 2026. We have a fantastic night in store for you as we celebrate all we have accomplished together this year, and look forward to sharing our vision of scaling up in the future. Reception starts at 6PM, followed by Dinner and our Program at 7PM at the Silver Spring Civic Center (MD). Come and share some laughs as we have NYC’s own comedienne Abby Govindan take center stage. Hope to see you there!

Gratefully,

Edu-GIRLS Gala Vice - Chairs

Sangeeta and Prashant Gaur, Jyoti and Sukumar Iyer

Edu-GIRLS Gala Committee

Namath and Nisha Ali, Jyostna and Ambrish Gupta, Pammi and Chander Khosla, Pooja and Anand Parikh, Prakash Saraf, Gayatri and Adesh Saxena, Manoj Tiwari, Annal and Vivek Vaid

Lead Gala Sponsors

Brillient

Credence

Edu-GIRLS ANNUAL GALA 2025

On behalf of Edu-GIRLS and our Gala Committee, please join us for an evening of lively conversation, dinner and our evenings program celebrating the launch of Edu-GIRLS’ new campaign, INVEST IN SUCCESS - Cradle to Careers. By educating girls and supporting their goals to be financially independent members of society, we are investing in their and their communities' success. Whether it's helping 50 girls become engineers or medical professionals or others pursuing careers after vocational training, Edu-GIRLS remains committed to ensuring that all our girls achieve financial independence through customized education, vocational training and through College scholarships. None of this would be possible without the support of valued donors like you standing with us.

We are delighted to share that our Keynote Speaker for the evening will be Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta, co-founder of the Arch Collaborative and former Ambassador-at-Large of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State.

With gratitude,

Gala Committee: Namath and Nisha Ali - Sangeeta and Prashant Gaur - Jyostna and Ambrish Gupta - Rishanka and Zack Jones - Pammi Khosla - Neeta Datt - Abha Upadhyaya and Snehavadan Macwan - Pooja Parikh - Gayatri and Adesh Saxena - Annal and Vivek Vaid

Board of Directors: Anand Seth, Founder and Chairman - Vandana Pamecha, CEO - Sameer Shukla, Treasurer - Andrea Ahmed, Secretary -Sangeeta Agrawal - Nalini Bouri - Priti Jain - Bruno Laporte - Aditya Narain - Narayan Ramachandran - Shreema Sanghvi Dungarani