BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS - New Delhi, India

Bishakha Datta
Bishakha Datta is a writer and documentary filmmaker with an abiding interest in women's rights, sexuality, and marginal points of view. Her book And Who Will Make the Chapatis, focuses on rural women entering politics and has been translated into Marathi. She has recently completed a documentary film, In The Flesh, which explores the lives of two women and a man in prostitution - from their own perspectives. Bishakha is also the program director of Point of View, a Mumbai-based not for profit organization that aims to promote the points of view of women through creative and sustained use of media, arts and culture.

Geetanjali Misra
Geetanjali Misra has worked in India and the United States on issues of human rights, gender, sexuality and reproductive health and violence against women. She was the Sexuality and Reproductive Health Program Officer at the Ford Foundation where she worked on issues of HIV/AIDS, sexuality, violence against women and research and advocacy relating to reproductive freedom. 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 currently Co-Director of The Sexuality and Rights Institute in India, on the board of Trustees of Reproductive Health Matters, an international peer reviewed journal, and President of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). 

Radhika Chandiramani
Radhika Chandiramani, a trained clinical psychologist, is the Executive Director of TARSHI: Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues, a not-for-profit organization based in New Delhi, India dedicated to the individual right to a self-affirming and enjoyable sexuality. Radhika has written extensively on issues of sexuality, ethics, and reproductive health. She is a Trustee of the Psychological Foundations. Radhika was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Population Innovations as well as the Soros Fellowship for Reproductive Health and Rights. She is Co-Director of the Sexuality and Rights Institute in India and Director of the South and South East Asia Resource Center on Sexuality. 

Sabeena Gadihoke
Sabeena Gadihoke teaches Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. She is also a documentary filmmaker and cameraperson 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 Bannerjee
Sashwati Bannerjee has over fifteen years of experience in communications and social development. She is currently the Country Director of Sesame Workshop India, the Indian subsidiary of the American non-profit famous for the children’s educational television program Sesame Street. She was the Program Director and Communications Advisor to a project of Abt Associates, where she was responsible for managing and implementing behavior change communications for reproductive health and child survival programs. She was instrumental in setting up the Healthcare Division in one the world's largest advertising agencies, Ogilvy and Mather.

Sohini Bhattacharya
Sohini Bhattacharya is Director for Partnerships, with the Ashoka Innovators for the Public, South Asia, a global not for profit organization pioneering and promoting the concept of social entrepreneurship. Sohini directs institution building, marketing and development for Ashoka in South Asia. Sohini has worked in the field of economic development with special focus on women for 10 years prior to joining Ashoka in 2000. Past career experience include working with Child In Need Institute (CINI), working as a program officer at Dastkar, and helping in the launch of Sanhita, a Gender Rights Centre, in Calcutta. 

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 at Amsterdam, the global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute organized by CREA, and the Sexuality and Rights Institute organized in India by CREA and TARSHI. 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.

Shilpa Phadke
Shilpa Phadke is an independent researcher and an associate of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) in Mumbai. She has been educated at the Universities of Bombay, SNDT and Cambridge. She has taught Sociology & Anthropology at St Xavier's College. As a pedagogue, she has designed and coordinated several discussion groups, a lecture series and workshops. She is currently a consultant with CREA for the “Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination.”