Category: speakers

Zayan (he/him) identifies as a Dalit Queer feminist who works at Nazariya QFRG as a Senior Programme Coordinator. He is a trained educator and has experience in teaching children, researching …

Yash Sharma (He / They) is embarking on an exhilarating journey as the Assistant Project Manager at the dynamic Rainbow Literature Festival 2023. Hailing from the bustling streets of Delhi, …

Head of the Institute of International Education India (IIE), Vivek has spent several years managing scholarships and fellowships programs for the British Council and the Ford Foundation. Based in New …

Vikram Kolmannskog (b. 1980) is a writer, psychotherapist, and full professor of gestalt psychotherapy. He has a mixed heritage with a Norwegian father and a mother born in Kenya to …

(She/They) is a queer feminist activist. She is the Program Coordinator in Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group. She is a peer counselor and has been doing crisis intervention cases …

Urvashi Butalia is co-founder of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women (set up in 1984) and now runs Zubaan, another feminist imprint that was set up when Kali …

Meet Raza, an 8-year veteran in the world of SOGIESC and mental health. Co-founder of Aazaadi International, which focuses on holistic wellbeing of female sex workers and trans folx*. They …

Swaja Saransh is a visual and performance artist, researcher and facilitator based inNew Delhi. They have been working on the themes of climate change and sustainable development for the past …

He is a writer, curator, workplace inclusion consultant and singer-songwriter. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Straight to Normal: My Life as a Gay Man (2019) and Queersapien (2022). A TEDx speaker, …

Shivraj Parshad recently joined Avian WE, with a focus on client centricity and people development. He has over 25 years of experience of working with individual and institutional clients on …