Founder | Jungwa Foundation
Tara Sharma is a cultural heritage specialist with over twenty years’ experience in working with communities of the trans Himalayan region of Ladakh for the conservation of cultural heritage. In 2018, she founded the non-profit organisation Jungwa Foundation, which has been engaging with pastoral nomadic communities in Eastern Ladakh to safeguard intangible cultural heritage and develop sustainable livelihoods based on traditional cultural and ecological knowledge. Tara has previously worked as a consultant with UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS, AKTC, WMF, INTACH and NIRLAC.
What happens when a centuries-old knowledge system—held in practice, not institutions—meets a world changing faster than it can adapt? The Changpas of Changthang are living that question.
Tara Sharma
Founder | Jungwa Foundation
