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Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
September 19 - 22, 2011; New Delhi, India
Resource Persons and Organisers
Pramada Menon is a queer, feminist activist and an independent consultant working on
issues of sexuality, sexual rights, gender, violence against women, organizational
development and change and livelihoods for more than two decades. She is the co-founder of
CREA, an international women's human rights organization and worked as the
Director Programs of the organization from 2000 - 2008. Before co-founding CREA, she was the
Executive Director of Dastkar, an organization working to ensure sustainable livelihoods for
craftspeople. Pramada has been very active in the sexual rights movement in India and
internationally. She is a stand up performance artist and does a show Fat, Feminist and Free,
which examines issues gender, sexuality, sexual rights and body image through a series of
humorous stories based on her life.
Email: pramadam@gmail.com.
and from TARSHI:
Radhika Chandiramani trained as a clinical psychologist at the National Institute of Mental
Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), India. She founded TARSHI in 1996. She is a
recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development and the Soros
Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship. She has written Good Times for Everyone:
Sexuality Questions, Feminist Answers (Women Unlimited, 2008) and co-edited Sexuality,
Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia (Sage, 2005).
She has co-conceptualised and taught at the Sexuality and Rights Institute, India and taught at
the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society, Amsterdam.
Prabha Nagaraja worked in the field of disability and special education before focusing her
work in the area of sexuality. She has been involved in sexuality training for several years.
She has been a counsellor and supervisor of the TARSHI Helpline. She is particularly interested
in disability and sexuality related issues.
Gunjan Sharma is a trainer and counsellor on issues of sexuality, sexual health and HIV and
AIDS. With a large number of years of training behind her, she has worked extensively on these issues
with a wide variety of groups and has special interest in working with women and adolescents in building
capacities and life skills around sexual and reproductive health.
Sangita Singh has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), Bachelor of Social Work and a Masters
in Public Health. She has been working in the field of Sexual Health and HIV over the last five years
in India and Australia. Her work has included sexual health counselling, capacity building, health
education, advocacy and development. Sangita's responsibilities include, documentation, reporting,
editing publications, communications and developing training material.
Dipika Srivastava has a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development and Management from the Institute
of Engineering and Rural Technology, Allahabad. She has worked at providing services and resources to women
and adolescent girls in the area of reproductive health. Her work at TARSHI includes reporting, documentation,
developing Hindi IEC material and networking apart from managing logistics and providing back end support to trainings and workshops.
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