ElsaMarie D’Silva is currently the Founder of Red Dot Foundation and President of Red Dot Foundation Global, (Safecity) which is a platform that documents sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. She is responsible for the strategic vision of the organisation, business development and public relations. Under her guidance and leadership, Safecity has become the largest crowd map on the issue in India and 17 other countries.

Beyond Black is another of her social entrepreneurship ventures.

She is a 2020 Gratitude Network Fellow & 2019 International Women’s Forum Fellow, 2019 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, 2018 Yale World Fellow, 2017 Stanford Draper Hills Summer School Fellow, 2017 Chevening Gurukul Fellow at Oxford University, 2016 Rotary Peace Fellow, 2015 Aspen New Voices Fellow, 2014 Vital Voices Lead Fellow and an alumna of the Swedish Institute (2012) and the US Department of State’s Fortune Program (2016) and a participant of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016. She represented Safecity at the Fast FWD accelerator programme that was an initiative of the City of Philadelphia, USA as part of the Bloomberg’s Mayors Challenge in February 2014.

She was the Curator for #TEDxVersova under whose banner she hosted TEDxVersovaWomen 2018, 2019 and 2020, over 20 TEDxVersovaSalons 2019 and 2020 and TEDxVersova 2019 and 2020.

She also has a conversation series “beliEVE” (with Aawaz), “Global Girls” (SheThePeople) & “Amazing Grace” that interviews contemporary women leaders with the aim to provide young girls with role models who inspire.