Research Associate: Gender
Arpita Joshi has a Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is currently with IT for Change as a Research Associate (Gender). She has worked with NGOs and networks on issues relating broadly to the field of social and environmental justice. In specific she was involved in lobbying and creating networks for the rights of people displaced by development project and laws which are socially and environmentally just. She has also worked on issues relating to the rag-picker communities in cities. Her areas of interest include women's empowerment, women and violence, globalisation and governance reforms, development induced displacement.