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Kavitha Kuruganti is the National Convener of ASHA (Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture), a large informal network of more than 400 organisations drawn from 20 states of India, working to uphold farmers' rights and improve farm livelihoods through promotion of sustainable agriculture www.kisanswaraj.in. She is also one of the leading campaigners in India against the entry of GMOs in our food and farming, and against corporate takeover of Indian farming. She has more than seventeen years of experience working on development issues, including on democratisation of science & technology and in promotion of ecological farming. She is a Development Communicator by qualification, having obtained her Master’s degree from the University of Hyderabad. She serves on the Boards of several organisations as a Trustee, including two all-women Boards.
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R. Eugene Culas Straight after University studies, started working in the Marianad Community Development Project, for fishing community under Trivandrum Social Service Society, the first Diocesan Social Service Society in India by Bishop Peter Bernard Pereira. Initiated the first Fishermen Co-operative Society in south Asia with fish marketing as its cardinal activity surrounded by saving, credit, repayment, intermediate technology, land acquisition, housing, education, health etc. which brought a traditional fishing economy upside down and became the model for the State Government to enact a law in fisheries. He is the founding Coordinator of Programme for Community Organisation (PCO), Trivandrum, Founder of South Indian Fishermen Federation (SIFFS), Founder of Coastal Education and Cultural Trust (CECT), Trivandrum, Founder of Fathimapuram Housing Project, Executive Director of Trivandrum District Fishermen Federation (TDFF), Initiated Sea Street- Kudappaduva Fishermen Federation, Nigambo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Founding Member of Voluntary Action Network (VANI), New Delhi, Life Member of National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS), Pune, India and founder and associate of number of local people's Organisations and NGOs in India. In 1998-99 studied Dr. Ambedkar and his thoughts while staying with a Dalit family. In July 1999 left for UK for founding VODI. He is the Director of Voice of Dalit International (VODI), U.K.
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Enakshi Ganguly Thukral is a human rights activist, development researcher and trainer having been involved in research, advocacy and training, nationally and internationally, on a wide range of socio-legal issues such as development-induced displacement, housing rights, unorganised labour and issues concerning women and children. Since co-founding HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi, in 1998, she has been working in focused manner on children’s rights. This includes the areas of children and governance and child protection, which include issues such as child trafficking and violence, abuse and exploitation, juvenile justice and right to housing and shelter amongst other things. The work undertaken by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights www.haqcrc.org in the area of children and governance, particularly related to Budget for Children, was first of its kind in the country. She works with and supports children who are victims of violence and those who have been unfortunate enough to come in conflict with law. She was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in recognition her work and has several books and publications to her credit. |
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Anjali Kanitkar is Associate Professor at the College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai and has been teaching there for the last twenty-five years. She has done her post-graduation from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and has since, been working on issues of tribal development. She has been actively associated with organisations such as Sarvahara Jana Andolan in Raigad district and Vidhayak Sansad in Thane district of Maharashtra. She is also one of the founder members of Samarthan - an organisation working on advocacy. She is currently actively engaged in leading AROEHAN - a field action project of the College of Social Work in the tribal tahsil of Mokhada in Thane district. The project works towards reducing child malnutrition and on related issues in the tahsil. She is an active member of the Bombay University and College Teachers’ Union (BUCTU) and has also been elected to the Senate of the University of Mumbai. She is presently a member of the University Women Development Cell.
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