Tulasi Munda (born 15 July 1947) is a social activist from the Indian state of Odisha.

She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 by Government of India for her contribution to spreading literacy among the impoverished adivasi peoples of Odisha.

[3] She belongs to the Munda ethnic group of adivasis, the collective term in mainland South Asia for indigenous peoples.

Munda was born on 15 July 1947 in Kainshi village located in the present-day Keonjhar district in Odisha.

[5] As a child, she wished to study but the idea of educating girls and women was largely socially unacceptable at the time.