our team

In addition to her current role as interim Executive Director for Gender at Work Global, Sudarsana is also the Country Director for Gender at Work India, where she is working with a range of organizations to drive institutional change for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. Through her work leading UN Women's programmes on gender and governance, she has worked with governments and CSOs across the globe, providing recommendations on enhancing service delivery for women. She has advised numerous organizations on developing strategies that ensure public and private sector actors have a stronger social and economic impact, particularly with respect to gender equality. In the past she has also worked with a Fortune 500 company where she pioneered several new organizational development initiatives. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University and an MBA in Human Resources Management from the XLRI - Xavier School of Management, India. She is also an active board member of Nayi Disha, a not-for-profit focused on empowering parents who have children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Carol Miller is an experienced researcher, learning specialist and evaluator on gender and women's rights, with a particular interest in feminist evaluation. After working with the UN as Research Associate at UNRISD, she continued promoting gender equality and women's rights issues as staff member and consultant with various NGOs, including ActionAid and Oxfam. She has published widely on gender and women's rights, most recently as a co-author of Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations (Routledge 2016). Carol is also a Director and Co-founder of the charity Changing Minds: Promoting Excellence in Mental Health Practice which works to improve access to treatment for anxiety and mood disorders. She holds a D.Phil from Oxford University and a graduate degree in Policy and Program Evaluation from Carleton University, Canada.

Michaela Partridge is a feminist campaigner, writer and creative consultant working to advance gender equality by combining her life-long passions – human rights and visual arts. Her work on social development and inclusion issues has been grounded in the context of rural India, where she previously lead the communications and advocacy portfolio for RGMVP, a poverty eradication and women’s empowerment project in Uttar Pradesh. As our communications point-person, Michaela has helped lead the visual impact of Gender at Work’s mission – from visualizing knowledge for data-driven reports and program documents to designing our new website and creating a visual identity for our podcast. Her passion project, Genderless Agenda, has developed alongside her as a creative agency that takes on purposeful projects to engage audiences to act. GA has worked with a range of non-profits, feminist networks and activists to help voice their causes, including gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, youth activism and anti-ageism among others. Michaela has a Bachelor’s in Art and Religion from Syracuse University in New York and a Master’s in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

Aayushi Aggarwal is a research and communications associate at Gender at Work, and has previously been associated with UN Women and Forum-Asia. Aayushi holds a Masters in Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter-University for Human Rights and Democratization; and a Masters in English Literature from Delhi University. At Utrecht University, Netherlands, Aayushi has conducted extensive research on LGBTI issues in Asia, and published on the contemporary socio-cultural and legal practises, pertaining to LGBTI community in India, considering India’s relations to International law and mandates. At the Delhi Commission for Women, Aayushi was a part of the team that worked in the three most endemic jurisdictions for gendered crimes in Delhi, and collected data for a quantitative analysis of crime response.

Samira has worked as a finance manager in the nonprofit sector for over 15 years. In the past, she worked with CHF International, a nonprofit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable.

Jagdish has over 6 years of experience in finance & accounting. In the past, he has worked for FMCG sector, IT solution sector, and a consulting & auditing firm. Jagdish is a graduate from Osmania University, India and holds a Post-graduate certificate in Business Management from the XLRI – Xavier School of Management, India.

Ritu is an experienced project management trainer and has worked in the management consulting industry for over 9 years. She has a strong understanding of digital platforms and the ICT domain and her last assignment was with IBM India in the role of a project management analyst. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (on process improvement) practitioner. She has completed her MA in Gender and Development from the University of Sussex and also holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management from XLRI, India. She has researched and written on the issues of child marriage, gender identities, marriage, Indian middle-class and material culture. Previous to joining Gender at Work, Ritu worked as research associate at IDS for a UN Women funded project. She also contributed to the project on Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID).