Maya Vishwakarma is the founder and chairperson of Sukarma Foundation. She hails from Mehragaon, Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh where she led the initiative to set up a mini-factory that employs local women to manufacture low-cost sanitary napkins for tribal and rural girls. She has also made a documentary film and authored a book titled Swaraj Mumkin Hai (Independence is Possible) advocating for sustainable villages.