Yusra Khan is an Indian social entrepreneur, facilitator, and community-based leader who has spent over twelve years working alongside children, women, and young people across the country to expand access to education, dignity, and opportunity. She began her journey in 2012, guided by a belief that when people are trusted, supported, and given space to learn, they carry an extraordinary capacity to transform their own lives and communities.

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Growing up as a Muslim woman in a minority neighbourhood surrounded by urban slum clusters, her understanding of injustice, belonging, and the quiet strength of communities shaped her commitment to work at the intersections of education, gender, and social equity.

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In 2018, she founded Yellow Streets, a grassroots learning and leadership organization working with urban marginalized communities, including migrant families, adolescent girls, and young people in conflict with the law. Today, her team works with over 400 children, 50 women, and 80 adolescents in juvenile justice settings. Members of her core team include young people from the very first group she began working with in 2012, who are now educators, coaches, and facilitators themselves.