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Ravneet Vohra Ravneet Vohra is the proud founder and sole proprietor of Wear Your Voice Magazine, an intersectional feminist publication that breaks cultural norms and unconscious biases that exist in today’s world. Prior to establishing her publication in 2014, Ravneet held an extensive career in fashion where she worked as a personal stylist, consultant, and PR and marketing manager in the fashion and hospitality industries. Ravneet noticed two things while working in the fashion industry: the lack of inclusion in size and in color.
Because of her experiences with growing up as a South Asian woman in a predominately white society—placed into a box culturally and experiencing fashion as a one-sided industry—she found it hard to relate to a medium which felt exclusive. After Ravneet noticed that there wasn’t a platform properly representing brown and Black communities, she decided to take it into her own hands and created Wear Your Voice Magazine.
Ravneet not only represents brown women growing up in a western society, but as a survivor of domestic and sexualized violence, she also represents and advocates for women who have been sexually and physically abused. Wear Your Voice Magazine is made to shake up the status of quo of mainstream media and inject integrity into a space which has kept out the voices of marginalized people.
Wear Your Voice Magazine speaks well to the media, entertainment, lifestyle, culture and sports industries, similarly to Tarana Burke’s #MeToo, and #Timesup, these campaigns are at the root of why this publication is so crucial in our times. Currently, Wear Your Voice is a C corp (for profit) and also has fiscal sponsorship in order to secure donations/grants and expand fundraising initiatives.
In addition to Wear Your Voice Magazine, Ravneet has contributed to major outlets such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Daily Mail, Buzzfeed, NBC, CNN, and the BBC. She was also featured as “Top 10 Women to Be Thankful For” in the Huffington Post, presented with a woman of substance award by Charity For Cause Foundation in London, was a featured speaker at the “F Word” and has been a frequent speaker at Dress for Success. Most recently she was invited to speak at UC Berkeley on a technology she has co-developed that enables companies to read D&I statistics in flow.
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Ravneet Vohra As a visionary leader in the media space Ravneet has, amongst other things, made it her sole purpose to create what she calls conscious business, and she takes this energy and transforms it into inclusive and thoughtful journalism.
It is Ravneet’s intention to create a company where they grow, expand and share social and financial capital amongst marginalized people. All too often businesses create success off the back of their employees without proper acknowledgement or compensation. She emphasizes that Wear Your Voice would not exist if it were not for their in-house team and contributing writers. As Wear Your Voice grows as a media site, Vohra’s intention is to continue to create economic access for all those who actually do the work of social justice through journalism. WYV is shifting the way media companies (and companies in general) operate by uplifting those at the front lines of social change and
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activism. By creating a business model that honors and highlights Black and Brown women, femmes, trans and non binary people, they create a space of mutual respect. Vohra emphasizes that corporations exploit the work of marginalized communities whose work is erased, othered, and stolen from and so it is her mission to strive to do the opposite of this by investing in the communities Wear Your Voice represents. Her business model is built to disrupt the ways in which corporations function: it is not just about executives hoarding the wealth as classic business structures have done in the past, it is about understanding that Wear Your Voice is nothing without their workers. Vohra believes that a happy and healthy workforce speaks volumes to the job that they do and that they deserve and need support and economic access in order to keep using journalism to combat oppression.
It is Ravneet’s daily intention to consistently think of the privilege she holds in a world not always made for our collective, higher good. She believes that this is how you should grow business, and that this is how business should be conducted. Vohra’s aim is to redefine and rebuild corporate business environments to be compassionate and for the workers as much as they are for the executives.
In order to affect change it is crucial that we bring the voices of those most marginalised to the forefront of telling their own stories, this is where change begins this is where change happens.
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Ravneet Vohra is a trained international speaker who has navigated her way through cultural norms and made her way through classic, social and professional culture.
She is fully aware of the nuances and the unconscious biases that exist today and represents the voice of those under represented. She also understands how colonialism has destroyed us, how we turn away and mock our sexuality, yet we have as a culture always had a 3rd gender. Ravneet has previously spoken for:
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F-Word London Fashion For A Cause- Key Note Speaker Dress for Success
Ravneet loves to speak on the following topics:
How to build a conscious business, lead with integrity not just money. Balancing the voices we give a platform to How to give economic access to marginalized communities
MEDIA PLACEMENTS
Link: https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/body-positivity-origins#3
Link: https://www.kalw.org/post/fashion-and-feminism-converge-oakland-based-magazine#stream/0
"In the 2006 film, “The Devil Wears Prada,” the imperious fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep champions the waifish ideal of female beauty, referring to her plucky new size-6 assistant as “the fat one.” It’s that kind of unhealthy beauty standard that real-life editor Ravneet Vohra is working to challenge with Wear Your Voice, the online women’s magazine."
Link: https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/12/14/body-positive-warrior-oakland-editor-ravneet-vohra-celebrates-diverse-ideas-offemale-beauty/
Link: https://www.bustle.com/articles/125988-wear-your-voice-magazine-launches-beyondbeauty-campaign-photos
Link: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/11-fearless-images-that-push-us-to-rethink-what-beautifulmeans_us_564e0a61e4b08c74b734c008
https://consciouscompanymedia.com/social-entrepreneurship/success-stories/top-22-conscious-business-leaders-of-2019/
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/mark-cuban-backed-wear-your-voice-centers-marginalized-communities/
CONTACT RAVNEET Email: Ravneet@wyvmag.com Web: wearyourvoice.com Instagram: @ravneet_vohra Twitter: @ravneetvohra Facebook: @Ravneet Vohra