Arpan is an award-winning organisation working hard to address the issue of child sexual abuse in India. Based in Mumbai, Arpan is the largest NGO in India in this specific area with over 60 social workers and counselors providing prevention and intervention services to children and adults. Over the last 9 years Arpan has reached out to over 120,000 children and adults directly through its services and over 500,000 indirectly through training and capacity building of various stakeholders.
Pooja Taparia is Founder and Chief Executive of Arpan, an NGO based in Mumbai with a mission to prevent the occurrence of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and heal those who have been affected by it. She started work on CSA in 2006, and has grown the team from 3 to 60 professionals (the largest team in India) who run various activities, workshops, teaching, training and counselling services to deal with CSA.
Dasra is India’s leading strategic philanthropy foundation nurturing powerful partnerships with funders and social enterprises.
Harish is a part of the Advisory Research & Due Diligence team at Dasra. He conducts pre-investment evaluation and duediligence of organizations working to create an impact in the development sector in India.
Feminism in India is a social movement to learn, educate & develop a feminist consciousness among youth. It is required to unravel the F-word & demystify all the negativity surrounding it.
Palashi is the content wordsmith and digital marketing specialist at Menstrupedia (menstrupedia [dot] com). A cat-loving cyborg, her eyes light up at the mention of gender, technology, sexuality, music and politics; and once in the groove, she'll either tear apart the system or break into a hum. She blogs at transientruth [dot] wordpress [dot] com.
Dr. Richard Rego is a blogger, tweeter, writer, photographer and researcher. He did his Ph.D. in Kannada Cinema from Pune University, and his post-Doctoral research at University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Richard is currently teaching in the Department of Communication at St.Joseph's College, Bangalore.
The Concerned for Working Children is a 35 year old not-for-profit secular, democratic private development agency, thrice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
He is the Head of the Department of Politics & International Relations at UK's Westminster University. He has an avid interest in matters of democracy, plurality, equality and justice
Amitabh Kumar has been working for Centre for Social Research, an organization dedicated to working for gender justice, for the past 8 years. He dons diverse roles such as gender sensitization trainer, project coordinator, fundraiser, counselor, and presently, he heads the media and communication department, working extensively on social media for social change. He has studied in Germany, and believes in using technology for sustainable development and awareness generation.