New Delhi: Actress and environmentalist Dia Mirza says she believes in using her celebrity status, which she refers to as a “privilege” to make “positive change”.
Asked why is it important for her to bring recognition to something that affects the society, Dia said: “I just respond to what I feel and when I can’t help or do something about something then I speak about it and I really think that I have been gifted (with) this amazing privilege of having some amount of influence on people and if I can use that privilege to make a positive change.”
Dia, who has been appointed as UN Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India, says everyone is a “change maker if they choose to be”. “Some of the most incredible people who make change are unrecognised, unmentioned and it doesn’t matter to them. They just keep going about and doing their work. I just happened to be in the public sphere and people happen to find out what I am doing,” Dia added. The actress says if she doesn’t use her “celebrity status to make a positive change then I don’t know what I could really use it for.”