Kalyani Pardeshi

A strong advocate against bullying, Kalyani Pardeshi connects with teenagers and their parents through a mutual enemy: Bullying. She openly shares her own experiences of bullying and overcoming the emotional scars left by it. In her own words, she says it is safe to say that wherever she went, bullying followed her leaving her no choice but to develop skills to silence her bullies and build self-confidence. It is these experiences and the lessons she learned from them that she shares in her book Unbullied! 14 Techniques to Silence the Critics, Externally and Internally while she also includes tools and techniques to combat bullying - all types of bullying. Unbullied won the Book Excellence Finalist Award as well as an Honour Award from Skipping Stones, a New York based non-profit publication. Kalyani has been interviewed by many including Hollywood Times.