Nidhi Goyal is a disabled feminist activist from India working on disability rights and gender justice. She is the founder and Executive director of the National Award winning Indian non-profit organisation ‘Rising Flame’ which works for women and youth with disabilities. For over a decade, Nidhi has been committed to changing the lives of persons with disabilities and has worked with a range of National and global women’s rights, disability rights, and human rights organizations. Nidhi’s work spans research, writing, training, campaigns, advocacy, and art. She was appointed to the UN Women Executive Director’s Civil Society Advisory Group, is a part of the multi-stakeholder steering committee of the Generation equality Forum, sits on the advisory board of VOICE, and is the President of the Board of Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). The National Human Rights Commission invited Nidhi to be a part of a core group working on the elderly persons and people with disabilities. Nidhi is also India’s first female disabled stand-up comedian, and uses humour to challenge prevailing notions about disability and gender.

Vanita Nayak Mukherjee is a feminist activist and researcher. She co-leads DAWN’s Feminists for a People’s Vaccine (FPV) Campaign and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) thematic analysis team. Vanita has been a part of the feminist and social movements in Kerala, India since the early 1980s, and worked with feminist groups and networks in various capacities contributing to advocacy, capacity building and action-research. She was DAWN’s Regional Coordinator for South Asia, and is currently a member of DAWN’s Executive Committee. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Holland and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology.
Vanita was a Program Officer and later, a Senior Advisor on Gender at the Ford Foundation’s India, Nepal and Sri Lanka office directing the Civil Society and Social Justice and the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice portfolios.