Ms. Sumaira is an environmentalist from Mumbai and the founder of the NGO, Awaaz Foundation.
Through legal interventions and public campaigns, notably noise pollution and sand mining she has won national and international awards for her work.
She also set up the first network for the protection of activists in India after an attack on her by the sand mafia in 2004. She has been referred to as "one of India's foremost environmental activists. Ms. Sumaira is an environmentalist from Mumbai, India, founder of the NGO Awaaz Foundation and Convenor of the Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists (MITRA). She was Co-Chairman of the Conservation Sub Committee and Honorary Secretary of Asia's oldest and largest environmental NGO, the Bombay Natural History Society, and is currently a Governing Council Member.

Through legal interventions, advocacy and public campaigns, contribution to documentary films, television debates and press articles she has successfully mainstreamed and built consciousness about previously unknown environmental hazards, notably noise pollution and sand mining, and has won national and international awards for her work. She also set up the first network for the protection of activists in India after an attack on her by the sand mafia is 2004.

She has been referred to as "one of India's foremost environmental activists." This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx