Associates


	Michel Friedman (Associate) has worked as a feminist and social development activist for the past 25 years in a wide range of sectors, including violence against women, rural, urban and environmental development, land reform, organizational change and capacity building of women writers. She has worked as a facilitator, researcher, writer and program manager. She has been managing the Gender at Work programs in South Africa since 2004 and co-facilitated the Action Learning Program in the Horn of Africa with Senior Associate, David Kelleher, in 2006-2008. She is committed to further developing the integration of body, mind, spirit practices into Gender at Work's approach.
	For almost twenty years, Rex Fyles has supported the organizational development of civil society and social justice organizations based in Canada, Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa, Central America, Cuba, and South Asia. He has been teaching development studies courses at the University of Ottawa since 2007 and is currently responsible for managing international internships and field research courses. He grew up on the west coast of Canada and since has lived, studied and worked in Québec, Brazil, France, Mozambique and South Africa.
	Anita Gurumurthy (Associate) is a founding member and currently co-director of IT for Change (www.ITforChange.net), an NGO in India. Anita's core interests have included research and policy advocacy on development and social change, with specific focus on areas such as gender, public health, globalization, and the information society. She is part of the governing structure of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID). Her recent book, published by Elsevier, which she co-edited with colleagues at IT for Change is titled "Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issues."
	Jeremy Holland (Senior Associate) has been variously a social development consultant, university lecturer and trainer for the past 15 years with research and advisory experience in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He works on poverty and policy analysis; monitoring and evaluation; gender analysis; rights-based approaches; participatory governance; political economy; and participatory and combined research methods. Recent publications include Empowerment in Practice: From Analysis to Implementation and a sourcebook called Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform.
	Madhavi Kuckreja (Associate) has been part of the Gender at Work team in India as a facilitator, and has recently come on board as an Associate. For most of her career, Madhavi has worked in a community-based organization, Vanagana (in rural Uttar Pradesh), which focuses on women’s rights, women’s skills development in alternative technology, violence against women and collective feminist organizing around caste-based discrimination. Madhavi also mentors and supports other feminist Dalit and Muslim groups in Uttar Pradesh and has conducted trainings on gender equality and violence against women for women and men in North Sri Lanka and Darfur. In her other life, she is also an entrepreneur, running a crafts and weaves shop that markets products of NGOs and crafts persons from all over India.
	Kalyani Menon-Sen (Associate) is a feminist activist, researcher and learning facilitator based in Delhi, India. She has over 25 years of experience in working with a range of organizations - from grassroots women's groups to NGOs, development agencies and government programs - and helping them in building organizational capacities to advance women's rights. Most recently, she has been working with UNDP in developing and implementing organization-wide learning strategies for gender mainstreaming.
	Aruna Rao (co-founder and Senior Associate) is a gender and institutional change expert with over 25 years' experience of addressing gender issues in a variety of development organizations, primarily in Asia. In addition to serving on the boards of CIVICUS and AWID, she has consulted widely with UN organizations, academic institutions, and development NGOs on gender and development and organizational change issues and written extensively on gender and institutional change.
	Rieky Stuart (Senior Associate) is a consultant in international development. She has worked in this field since the late 1960s. She has worked and lived in Africa and Asia and Canada as a teacher, development programmer, consultant and manager. She was Executive Director of Oxfam Canada from 1999 to 2005. She previously served as Deputy Director for the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, and also taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady International Institute. She is currently a board member of CIVICUS.
	Praneeta Sukanya Kapur (Associate) has been working in the field of development since she finished her Masters Degree in Social Work in 2005. She started by working at the grassroots-level, going on to work with Oxfam and most recently with The Hunger Project, an organization that works with women elected to village ‘Panchayats’ (Councils). Issues she has engaged with in the course of her work include women’s leadership, capacity building, violence against women and savings & credit, amongst others. She has a mix of program and management skills, both areas in which she has had equal experience.