The following is an excerpt from “Brigham Young University Honors Kushal Chakrabarti with the 2013 Social Innovator of the Year Award” published in The Sacramento Bee on April 3, 2012:
![Kushal Chakrabarti, co-founder and CEO of Vittana, received the BYU Social Innovator of the Year award and presented at the 2013 TEDxBYU event.](https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/dims4/default/4b31aab/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1365+0+0/resize/840x560!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrigham-young-brightspot-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F20%2F20%2F017b8d594f849e9b3e2a4922dd0c%2F858-8615124806-f24d261586-k.jpg)
“Vittana Founder and Co-chair Kushal Chakrabarti was selected as 2013 Social Innovator of the Year by The Ballard Center at Brigham Young University (BYU). The Melvin J. Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at BYU leads the advancement of social innovation through education, research and experimental learning. Vittana is a non-profit who pioneered student microloans in the developing world ensuring access to education and the graduation of a generation beyond poverty.”