Executive Board

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Aparna Joshi

Member

Aparna Joshi is currently the Chairperson of the School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Work. She is a professional clinical psychiatrist with more than two decades of work experience on human rights based community mental health services. She has previously worked with organizations like Bapu Trust in Maharashtra. Her association with Vishakha started with providing expert support to the Mahila Salah Evam Suraksha Kendra Programme on mental health issues.

Dr. Archana Shrivastav is a communication specialist and presently works as the Head of Department, Dramatics at Rajasthan University. After completing her graduation from National School of Drama (NSD),she started her work with the Women’s Development Programme. She has directed many plays with youth and women; has a theoretical as well as practical knowledge of the medium.

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Archana Shrivastav

Member

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Bharat

Secretary and Co-Founder

Bharat is a specialist in the area of Education, Gender and Communication. He has more than three decades of experience around programming, research, and training. He has been associated with Vishakha right from the foundation and has led most of the major program in Vishakha.

He is an expert in conducting training among varied groups, building perspective and planning initiatives around issues of gender and education. He has designed various communication strategies and tools, organized campaigns for rural audiences, facilitated special workshops on dealing with stress and emotions.

Kamini Shukla is a well known activist and social worker in Rajasthan. She was also part of the Women’s Development Programme (WDP) and has provided guidance to the Vishakha team. She has extensively worked amongst women and girls in the Vagad region of Rajasthan – Banswara Udaipur and Durgapur. Currently she is the secretary of SMILE, at Jaipur.

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Kamini Shukla

Vice-Chairperson

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Kanchan Mathur

Chairperson

Kanchan Mathur has over 30 years of experience in applied research, evaluation and policy analysis in the field of social and rural development, especially focusing on gender issues. She has extensive experience of working with national and international organisations on issues of participation and inclusion of marginalized communities, women’s empowerment, gender-based violence, governance, sexual and reproductive health, poverty eradication, livelihood security and related areas. Her current areas of interest include understanding the politics of gender cutting across sectors, women’s rights and empowerment, gender based violence, gender and local governance, gender and policy planning and education of marginalized girls

Kesar is a tribal woman from Salumbar block of Udaipur district in Rajasthan. She is the first woman from her village to be engaged as the poll agent during elections. She has been involved in various programmatic interventions of Vishakha specially focused on adolescent girls’ empowerment. Kesar is presently working as a teacher in a government primary school in Udaipur.

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Kesar Meena

Member

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Manju Sharma

Treasurer

Manju is an activist and a feminist writer. She writes on issues related to women, media, feminism and governance. She has the strengths of engagement with both mainstream and alternative media. She is also the founder members of Vividha – a women’s documentation centre in Rajasthan. She has offered leadership to many recent manuals and process documents for UNFPA Rajasthan on PCPNDT act and beti bachaoo aandolan.

Pinki is a Social Development Professional, having diverse working experience in different parts of the country with the Govt., UN and NGOs. As an independent consultant she conducted several evaluations, training and research. Her specialization is in mainstreaming Gender Issues in different settings; program planning on Gender and Violence Issues and; designing & setting up counselling facilities for women and young people.

Her keen interest in working with individual’s well-being took her to a new journey of becoming a counselling psychologist. Currently She plays twin roles – as a Therapist and as a Development Consultant for conducting reviews, program management and evaluations for Donors / Foundations / NGOs.

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Pinki Solanki

Member

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Sunil Chaudhary

Member

Sunil is a trained social worker from the Udaipur School of Social Work. He has been awarded PhD for his research on “Old and new Tribal Movements: with special reference to the Bhil Tribes of Southern Rajasthan”. He presently works as the Assistant Professor in USSW. He has been keenly interested on working with youth and gender mainstreaming in academic institution.

Program Team

Email: choturam.vishakha@gmail.com

Chotu Ram Gujar

Trainer

Email: komalgoradevishakha@gmail.com

Komal Chandrakant Gorde

Co-Coordinator, Education

Email: vishakhayouthcentre@gmail.com

Pravin Sinha

Co-Coordinator, Youth

Email: rahikayarkar.vishakha@gmail.com

Rahi Sanjay Kayarakar

Co-Coordinator, SRHR

Email: vishakhashital@gmail.com

Shital Kailas Shelke

Co-Coordinator, Girls Leadership

Email: shabnam.vishakha@gmail.com

Shabnam

Senior Programm Manager

Email: shilpa.vishakha@gmail.com

Shilpa Kumari Sharma

Co-Coordinator, VAW

Email:

Shivdayal

Trainer

Email: vishakhayrcudaipur@gmail.com

Uma Paliwal

Co-Coordinator, Girls Collective

Email: account@vishakhawe.org

Anil Jain

Accountant

Email: admin@vishakhawe.org

Sudarshan Bhardwaj

System Incharge

Chanda Barot

Social Worker

Daulat Ram Meena

Dalu

Dharmista Kumari Meena

Hemlata Garg

Counselor

Jai Singh Bairwa

Jaywanti Sharma

Counselor

Kajal Kaushik

Counselor

Keva Ram Meena

Coaching Teacher

Lalita Meena

Laxmi Kumari Meena

Manju Nangal

Counselor

Meena Kunwar

Community Teacher

Monika Sharma

Social Worker

Narendra Kumar Meghwal

Social Worker

Parul Kumari Meena

Puji Kumari

Pusplata Sharma

Counselor

Renu Singh

Community Teacher

Rupi Kumari Meena

Social Worker

Seema Kumari Meena