Harsh Mander is a writer, human rights and peace worker, and researcher. He works with people living with hunger, homelessness, and victims of hate violence. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi. Email: manderharsh@gmail.com
Usman Jawed works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Equity Studies. He studied sociology at the University of Delhi and is interested in the political economy of development, in particular on issues of informal labour and politics. Email: usman.javed89@gmail.com
Mrinalini Ravi heads Skills Development and Vocational Training at The Banyan. She has been a part of The Banyan and BALM for 8 years. Her primary interests revolve around civil society engagement in meeting needs of homeless persons with mental health issues through volunteering initiatives, employment opportunities and outreach activities, and their impact on stigma reduction, social distance and agency. Mrinalini has completed her Bachelors in Psychology from Women’s Christian College and Masters in Mental Health Services Research from King’s College London.
Dr. A. Lakshmi Ravikanth is a mental health professional with over 25 years of experience as a counsellor. She offers a range of services for persons with mental health issues, supportive psychotherapy, family counselling. She has been with The Banyan for over two decades, and is currently the Deputy Dean of BALM, the academic and research wing of The Banyan.
Sarbani Dasroy is the Co-Founder and Director of Iswar Sankalpa and is an Ashoka Fellow. She pioneered an alternative pathway of community care for the homeless persons with mental illness in Kolkata. She has initiated an integrated approach to health care by making mental health care available at municipality primary health care centres for the urban home-based poor. Email: sarbani.iswarsankalpa@gmail.com
Professor Ravi Srivastava is currently Director of Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi. He received his education at the University of Allahabad, the Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and University of Cambridge, UK. His main areas of research and publication include labour and employment, migration, social protection, agriculture, rural development and rural poverty, the informal sector, regional development, decentralisation, human development, and land reforms.
Nandini Dey is a researcher and programme manager at the Centre for Equity Studies. She has a MSc. in Labour, Social Movements and Development from SOAS. Her research interests are in the areas of labour and social protection. Email: nandini.rv@gmail.com
Vivek Mishra is a PhD student at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston. Formerly, he was the coordinator of the India Exclusion Report 2017-18 at Centre for Equity Studies. Email: vvkmishra13@gmail.com
Anirban Bhattacharya is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Equity Studies. He has a PhD from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research is on plantation workers in the tea gardens in Duars, North Bengal. He is interested in research centered around issues of labour and informal work. Email: banhere@gmail.com
Jawed Alam Khan works with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability. His work focuses on fiscal decentralisation, social sector spending, SDGs and responsiveness of budgets to disadvantaged groups like minorities, Dalits and Adivasis. He has more than 13 years of experience in research and has authored several research reports and papers in his areas of interest. Email: jawedalamk@gmail.com
Priyanka Samy works with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), New Delhi. She leads CBGA’s work as the secretariat of People’s Budget Initiative (PBI), a coalition of civil society organisations working towards promoting people’s voice and participation in the formulation of government budgets in India. Email: priyanka@cbgaindia.org
Dr. Anup Surendranath is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Executive Director of Project 39A (formerly Centre on the Death Penalty) at National Law University, Delhi.
Rishika Sahgal is currently a candidate for the D.Phil in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She graduated from NLU Delhi in June 2015 and was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for her graduate studies at the University of Oxford. Email: rishika.sahgal@gmail.com
Apoorvanand teaches Hindi at the University of Delhi and is a literary and cultural critic.
Satish Deshpande teaches sociology in Delhi University and is the co-editor (with Usha Zacharias) of Beyond Inclusion: The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education, Routledge, 2013. Email: sdeshpande7@gmail.com
Rajanya Bose worked at Centre for Equity Studies as Programme Manager, Research and is currently a doctoral candidate at School of International Development at University of East Anglia. Her research interests lie in agrarian change, the land question and subaltern politics in contemporary India. Email: 89.rajanya@gmail.com
Dipa Sinha teaches at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. She is associated with the Right to Food campaign. Email: dipasinha@gmail.com