BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS - New Delhi, India

Bishakha Datta
Bishakha Datta is a non-fiction writer and filmmaker with an abiding interest in representing invisible points of view and people - specially people who are marginalized because of their genders or sexualities, or points of views that are unheard, 'illegitimate' or silenced. Her most recent published work is 9 Degrees of Justice, a collection of essays on struggles against violence on women in India. Her most recent films include documentaries such as In The Flesh: Three Lives In Prostitution, and Taza Khabar: Hot Off The Press, and shorts such as Zinda Laash: Bollywood's Norms for Dhandewalis and Out Of The Closet. Bishakha is the executive director of Point of View, a non-profit in Mumbai that promotes the points of view of women through media, art and culture. She is on the boards of non-profits such as Breakthrough, Dreamcatchers, Majlis, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Geetanjali Misra
Geetanjali Misra is a Co-founder and Executive Director of CREA, India/USA. Geetanjali has worked at the activist, grant making and policy levels on issues of human rights, gender, sexuality and reproductive health and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was the Sexuality and Reproductive Health Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. She is the co-founder of SAKHI for South Asian women in New York, a non-profit organization committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. She is on the Board of Directors of Reproductive Health Matters, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, Women's Dignity Project and Mama Cash, and was President of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) from 2006 - 2008. She has co-edited 'Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and South East Asia' (2005).

Sabeena Gadihoke
Sabeena Gadihoke is an Associate Professor, Video and TV Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. She is also an independent documentary filmmaker, cameraperson and Curator and works on the history and culture of Indian Photography. Her film 'Three Women and a Camera' was awarded prizes at Film South Asia in Kathmandu (1999) and at the Mumbai International Film Festival (2000). Her book 'Camera Chronicles' (Mapin, India) on the life and work of India's first woman photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla was released in 2006.

Sashwati Banerjee
Sashwati Banerjee is the Executive Director of Sesame Workshop India, the Indian subsidiary of the US based non-profit famous for the children's educational television program Sesame Street. With a career spanning over two decades, Sashwati specializes in Project Management and communication. Prior to joining Sesame Workshop she was the Program Director and Communication Advisor to PSP-One Project of Abt Associates Inc., where she was responsible for designing, managing and implementing programs for reproductive health and child survival.

Shilpa Phadke
Shilpa Phadke is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social sciences, Mumbai. She has been educated at the Xavier's College, Mumbai, SNDT University, The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught undergraduate sociology and anthropology at St Xavier's College, Mumbai. As a pedagogue, she has designed and coordinated several discussion groups, a lecture series and workshops. Shilpa Phadke has published academically in journals and edited book volumes as well as in newspapers and popular magazines. Her co-authored book: 'Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets' was published by Penguin, 2011. Her areas of concern include, gender and the politics of space, the middle classes, sexuality and the body, feminist politics among young women, reproductive subjectivities and pedagogic practices.

Shohini Ghosh
Shohini Ghosh is Dr. Zakir Hussain Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi and teaches Video and Television Production. She has taught courses on Gender, Sexuality and the Media (1992-1996) at the Department of Communication Cornell University. She currently teaches at the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Shohini co-founded Mediastorm Collective, India's first all women documentary production collective. Her first independent feature-length documentary, 'Tales of the Night Fairies' (2002), is about the struggle for sex workers' rights in Calcutta. A media scholar, she researches and writes extensively on popular culture, particularly films and queer sexuality in academic journals and the popular press.

Sohini Bhattacharya
Sohini Bhattacharya is an intrepid entrepreneur and social change enthusiast who has 20 years of experience in the development sector. Currently she is consulting with Breakthrough, a transnational human rights organization, helping them establish a strong resource base and scale-up strategies in India. She is also involved as the India Strategy Consultant in a start-up - the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, a unique platform for and by people interested in Venture Philanthropy, across India, Japan, Singapore and China. Prior to this, Sohini worked in the Ashoka Innovators for the Public, an international organisation focused on creating the field for social entrepreneurship, where she fundraised, built strategic partnerships and provided leadership to rebuilding the 300+ Ashoka Fellowship program in India. Sohini has worked in the social sector for over two decades, working in crafts, microcredit and gender rights. She has also helped set up a gender resource centre in Calcutta in the late 90's.