Global Innovation Series: Women's' Rights in India

In partnership between the South Asian Club, Yale's Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, and Tsai CITY's Knowledge Equity Initiative

Join us for a panel event with World Fellow ElsaMarie D'Silva alongside Tanya Sharma and Shruthi Basavaraj, to discuss how they've developed innovative ways to advance women's rights and gender equality in India, and their perspectives on the future of innovation in India and around the globe.

ElsaMarie D'Silva is an Indian gender rights activist, Founder and CEO of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) a tech platform that crowdsources incidents of sexual harassment through interactive mapping, now the largest crowd map on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon and Nepal.

Tanya Sharma developed a women's empowerment index for Niti Aayog (formerly Planning Commission of India, the Indian government's think tank) that measures the status and progress on the 36 Indian states and union territories on 24 indicators, facilitating discussions among key government stakeholders and conducting supporting quantitative analysis.

Shruthi Basavaraj worked at The YP Foundation, an Indian national non-profit that advances adolescents and young women's access to reproductive and sexual health information and services, reaching 10,000 young women in low-income urban and rural settings through its bi-weekly sexuality education workshops that seek to empower young women to advocate for their rights within their communities and state governments.

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