Vishal Talreja co-founded Dream a Dream along with 11 others. Vishal is an Ashoka Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow and a board member at PYE Global and Goonj. He has previously been a founding director of Unltd India and a board member of India Cares Foundation. He is the co-founder of Karanga - a Global Alliance on Life Skills and SEL. Vishal has been recognized as an "Architect of the Future" by the Waldzell Institut in Austria. He is also an advisor and mentor to Reap Benefit and is deeply committed to mentoring start-up NGOs and young social entrepreneurs. He is a TEDx Speaker, active writer on development challenges and human-interest stories and a poet. In 2018, he was awarded the 'Heroes of Bengaluru' award. Vishal believes that if we can re-imagine learning to develop empathy, creative thinking, problem solving and collaborative working skills amongst young people, they will be able to overcome adversity and flourish in this fast-changing world.