With a strong, unwavering desire to do something for children, help people take charge of their health and take care of the longest-serving, unbroken custodianship of the world - Padmaja started the nonprofit organization Friends of Mewar in Boston, MA, USA.

Friends of Mewar is committed to our causes of preserving cultural heritage, providing preventive healthcare, and promoting women’s empowerment and education through the support of our global community. You can learn more about the foundation’s journey by visiting the official website.

Padmaja is also on the board of trustees for Alakh Nayan Mandir, a public charitable trust established to provide quality eye care to all segments of society in Rajasthan regardless of their financial status. As a board member, and through her foundation Friends of Mewar, she is currently leading a blindness prevention through sight restoration project.

In addition to Friends of Mewar, Padmaja and her husband, Kush Parmar, are also supporters of Harvard Medical School’s Global Mental Health initiative. The goal of the program is to address mental health disparities and curate an online curriculum to train mental health workers in the development and delivery of psychological therapies. Through the Friends of Mewar Fund in Global Mental Health, and through the Parmar’s family’s donations, they have supported a myriad of program activities of the initiative including community events, student research assistant programs, and virtual programming like networking and research activities to name a few.

Padmaja also serves on the Advisory Board of The MS Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University. Their mission is to address key interactions between India and the world that have potential to transform human and planetary wellbeing, in addition to imaginaries of the human experience. 

She is an endorser and catalyst for inspiring and purposeful efforts.