Project Coordinator
Aparna K, is an MA, Sociology graduate with over four years of experience in the development sector. Organisations like Samuha and Hengasara Hakkina Sangha in Karnataka, and Timbaktu Collective in Andhra Pradesh have contributed to Aparna’s experience.
As a trainer, Aparna has handled diverse issues like dowry, sexual harassment, domestic violence, sexuality, gender and equity, police, Mutually Aided Cooperative Thrift Societies (MACTS), Panchayat Raj etc. Working as a trainer along with an associate for a UNICEF implemented ‘Community Monitoring Programme’, she has both given training and prepared training modules on active community monitoring of ICDS, Schools and Primary Health centres. She has also been involved in documentation and data analysis of the projects that she has worked on. At Samuha, Aparna worked as Coordinator for Adolescent Research Programme in collaboration with University of California, San Francisco. The team aided in testing the hypothesis “Economic independence gives adolescents more control over their bodies”.
In her student days, Aparna was an active member of an organization called Jana mana that used theatre as a medium to bring about awareness on social issues. Besides participating in various theatre festivals and symposiums she has acted in various street plays and stage productions.
Chinmayi has been with the Mahiti Manthana (MM) project of IT for Change (ITfC) since its start in 2005, working mostly with the video component. In the past three years, she has guided and been part of the video team in Mysore that has produced eleven videos meant for the rural sangha women that the project works with.
Guruprasad has completed - MSW
Harish Kumar has done BA
Krupa has worked with India – Canada Collaborative HIV/AIDS Project (ICHAP) and Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) as Programme Officer, Information, Education and Communication (IEC) from 2003 to 2004. Her work included communications training for field staff – on behaviour change communication, street play training with the community, participatory workshops for sex workers to facilitate expression of their experiences through visuals, production and development of communications materials, adaptation of existing materials and development of discussion guides for films. Krupa has seen a number of materials through from design to production.
Mangalamma completed her graduation in Arts from Mysore University
Prabha is a Post Graduate in Sociology from Mysore University
Rajesh has an M.A. in Public Administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. Previous to that he studied Computer Science & Engineering, at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore. He began his career with Mindtree Ltd, a software consulting firm, but made the shift to teaching shortly thereafter. He was a faculty member at SJCE, Mysore and has volunteered at many levels with Kaliyuva Mane, an alternative school for opportunity deprived children, run by Divyadeepa Trust on the outskirts of Mysore. He has also mentored a few civil service aspirants in his free time. Rajesh is passionate about FOSS and has been involved in imparting trainings at different levels including one for District Institute of Education and Training(DIET), Govt. Of Karnataka. He enjoys cooking, hiking and teaching children in his free time.
