Shriya Boppana is an Indian-born American beauty pageant titleholder, activist, and on-air personality. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Duke University with a Master of Business Administration before joining her Doctorate of Education program. She now works as a full-time Strategic Business Manager at TCS and part-time founder of her anti-sex trafficking startup, Becoming A Voice.
As a gender equity and sex trafficking activist, Shriya has worked with the United Nations Foundation, the Malala Fund, the US Department of Justice, the Obama Foundation, She's the First, Bachpan Save the Innocence, and many more organizations for the past 10 years. With her social impact organization, she helped save children from black market trafficking rings in underserved countries and held sexual health education workshops in over 400 orphanages, schools, and poverty-stricken areas across Northern India, educating over 20,000 children on consent culture.
Her work has been featured on ABC as a ‘Future Leader of America,’ Fox 5 as a ‘Voice for the Voiceless,’ and Flaunt Magazine as a ‘New Generation Beauty Pageant Champion' along with Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TEDx, and many more. Shriya received a personal letter of appreciation from Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, as a result of her advocacy journey calling her an “exemplary leader, talent, and community service.” In 2023, Shriya became the 2nd youngest person on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Austin and was the youngest inductee into the Fairfax County Hall of Fame for her anti-sex trafficking work. She later hosted her own TV show, “Becoming a Voice with Shriya Boppana,” on Fox 5 Plus spotlighting social justice causes such as domestic violence, acid attacks, and sexual assault reaching 6.2 million households every episode. In 2025, she was named Carnegie Mellon University's 'Tartan on the Rise.'
Shriya's dog, Marley
Shriya and her dad
Shriya and her mom
