The Vivacious Advocate of Gender Equality: Nikita Sharma

Fitness enthusiast, motivational speaker, microbiologist, dancer, model and beauty queen, Nikita Sharma, has seen her persona take on many more eclectic fronts over the last seven years. She is a leading Instagram influencer with a massive following of 564k as well as an active advocate of equality and rights for women. She is also the holder of a degree of triple majors in microbiology, chemistry and zoology. Moreover, she is admired for her fitness transformation journey as she, in three years, became a fitness expert by losing over 30 kilograms.

Miss Vivacious, Miss Refreshing and top finalist of Miss India, she has been the face of  national campaigns for brand like, “Nolte modular kitchen“, “Peps Mattress“, “2go sportswear” and “Davanam Jewelers“. She is the fitness ambassador of Chisel Fitness – India along with the brand ambassador, Virat Kohli.  She has promoted women’s body positivity and gender equality on national level, too. She believes that body positivity is a huge part of women empowerment. Admirably, she strongly stands for the small percentage of men who are wrongly dragged into cases of Me Too Movement.

She is also a cancer research and awareness activist running her own association called SILVER LININGS from the last six years. She took up a relevant microbiology degree to research on the same and holds camps; ropes in volunteers, conducts workshops and seminars, etc. to tell people about the disease. She was only 16 years old when she started this association which was her dream venture to support cancer awareness, and do her bit to educate the world that little bit more about the disease. She had lost a lot of people who were close to her to cancer and started off Silver Linings as a small initiative that has tremendously grown today.