Managing Trustee and Executive Director is a founder member of CFAR. She brings with her rich and varied experience as a researcher and advocate on issues related to gender and development and its impact on the masses in India.

Under her stewardship CFAR has grown from an informal group called the “Media Advocacy Group” to an organization that has a presence in eight states.

Writer and consultant brings with him 40 years of experience in the field of advertising. He has been associated with several of the leading advertising agencies in the country and has worked both in India and abroad as guest faculty on development issues. As trustee and treasurer of CFAR he provides expertise on management and financial issues.

Is a founder member of CFAR. As program manager from 1998 to 2007 she was closely associated with its various project relating to issues ranging from child rights and women’s issues to media education. She conducted numerous workshops and developed a number of development education modules.

Well known historian and author of several books she has been closely associated with the women’s movement in India. She was a co-founder of Kali for Women, the first ever feminist publishing house in India. She is the founder of the publishing house Zubaan which she presently heads.

Santosh Desai brings with him long years of experience in the world of advertising. He has a regular column in the Times of India and The Week and is on the board of several business schools. He is presently the CEO & MD of the brand consultancy services of Future Brands Ltd.