Sadhana joined the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Research and Advocacy (CIPRA) at the University in March 2013. At the Centre, she maintains the accounts, and helps manage the centre’s website, along with collating the Centre’s activities with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. She works with the Centre Head, researchers, and resource persons for all programmes organised by the Centre.
She also assists the Academic Administration Department at NLSIU.
Previously, she worked as a data entry operator and QC reader at Envisage solutions and Coals solutions, Bangalore; as a Customer Care officer/Receptionist with Sterling Holiday Resorts, Bangalore; and as an Office Admin/accountant with Zhenkar Advertising, Bangalore.
Sadhana has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from the SJRC College for Women, Bengaluru.
Sharon completed her BA LLB (Honors in English) from Panjab University, Chandigarh and LLM in Criminal Law from Army Institute of Law, Mohali, Punjab. Besides qualifying the UGC-NET, she holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology, Law and Policy from Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat and a Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.
As a Project Associate, she currently works under Dr. Mrinal Satish on the Bengaluru Safe City Police Training Programme. She is also a PhD scholar at NLSIU. Her area of research primarily focuses on analysing State power under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 through a constitutional perspective. Prior to joining NLSIU, she was with the Officers Training Academy, Chennai.
A native of Chandigarh, Sharon has actively participated in activities concerning social welfare in her hometown. Her hobbies include sketching, cooking, driving and running. She also enjoys debating and essay writing.
Shashikala’s career in education and child welfare began in August 2010 when she joined the Centre for Child and the Law at NLSIU as an Assistant Village Education Coordinator under the Universalization of School Education initiative. During her tenure from 2010-2017 at CCL, she worked on implementing educational projects, particularly focusing on the field extension office at Bidadi. In this role, Shashikala worked with the School Development and Monitoring Committees (SDMCs) and Bala Vikasa Samithi, and helped organise Anganwadi training sessions. She was also involved in regular meetings and initiatives such as Shikshana Grama Shaba, Makasa Meetings, Samudhayadatha Shale, and monthly gatherings at schools and Anganwadis, ensuring effective community participation and development.
Currently, Shashikala has joined the CRY Project as a Trainer, where she will bring her extensive experience in educational development and community mobilisation to enhance training programmes. Her strong background in coordinating education projects and her expertise in fostering collaboration among local stakeholders will contribute significantly to the success of the CRY Project’s objectives. With a deep commitment to child welfare and educational equity, Shashikala continues to work towards creating sustainable and inclusive educational environments for children and communities.
Shashikala has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore.
Shruthi Nair has previously worked as a Research Associate in Strategic Relations at the Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi, on funding and strategic relations. She completed her B.A. LL.B., (Hons.) from the School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore, in 2022.
Shubham Shinde graduated as a Computer Science engineer and has worked as a software engineer with a US based investment management firm. He has also previously worked with the Government Of Punjab, helping digitise internal processes and also led technology policy research at Pacta, a Bangalore based law firm and think tank. His interest in leveraging technology for the benefit of society and governance led him to pursue Master’s in Public Policy from the Kautilya School of Public Policy.
Aiming to build on his masters thesis on the “Problems in Software patents and their impact on innovation”, he joined NLSIU as a Research Associate for the Open Source Software (OSS) project that aims to study the economic value addition and impetus to innovation provided by OSS.
Siddharth is an aspiring queer historian based out of Bangalore. They have a master’s degree from Université Grenoble-Alpes with a specialisation in the queer history of Bangalore and Social Movement Theory. Their dissertation is titled Coalescing Queer Communities: LGBTQIA+ Mobilisation in Bangalore, 1994 – 2009. At the archive, they have catalogued and created finding aids for collections, translated and transcribed, trained volunteers, and undertaken research projects on archival ethics.
Their areas of academic curiosity include critical geography, human rights, postcolonial and subaltern studies, literature, culinary ethnography and the philosophy of science.
Siddharth Manohar is a writer and digital policy consultant whose work focuses on the regulation of digital systems, their interaction with users, and the technical bases and tools underpinning them. His past research and consultancy work in public policy has dealt with subjects such as net neutrality, platform regulation, data governance, and the role of data in influencing the impact of digital systems.
Siddharth completed his B.A. LL.B degree at the National Law University (NLU) Delhi, and went on to complete MSc in Responsible Data Science at the University of Birmingham, UK.
He is interested in using his public policy experience and technical understanding to translate policy positions in digital regulation into usable codes and tools in the technology value chain. He retains an interest in topics related to digital competition, human-computer interaction, and bodied human performance in digital spaces. He works in theatre and performance arts outside of research consulting and enjoys studying film.
Sudha has a Masters degree in Sociology from Mysore University; a diploma in community based rehabilitation of the disabled in India; diploma in Social Leadership and Rural Development from Searsolin Xavier University, Philippines and has competed an international course in Development Communication from International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), Philippines.
She has more than 20 years of experience in social action and development sector in India, which includes the areas of mobilization, capacity building, training, advocacy, organizational development, strategic planning and implementation. She has extensively worked with urban and rural NGOs working on the issues of differently abled, women, children, health & nutrition, education, environment, ecological agriculture, local governance in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Presently she is working as community outreach coordinator under the Right to Food Programme. She is passionate about the holistic empowerment of the marginalized rural and urban communities and action research in several dimensions of vulnerable people’s struggles, rights and responsibilities, peace and non-violence. She has been associated with several national and international civil society networks and people’s movements. She is advisory committee member of Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) and Alliance for Responsible & Sustainable Societies (Alliance-Respons); scientific committee member of International Forum of Social & Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs; International Gandhian Initiative for Non-violence and Peace (IGINP); member of South Asia Peace Alliance; South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy; People’s Movement for land, water and forest rights (Ekta Parishad); external member of Sexual Harassment Committee of Wildlife Conservation Society-India.
Dr. Vaishali. B. Katke graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Kuvempu University, following which she completed her post-graduation in ‘Social Work, Community Organization and Development Practice’ at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
During her internship, she was exposed to working with the ‘rights to safety and dignified living of homeless social groups’. She has exposure to working with marginalized communities, both in the urban and rural clusters. She has worked on different aspects of urban issues of housing, homelessness, and governance in urban space. She has research experience with the landless agriculture labourers, and community, over identity, caste, class, and gender expressions. Accordingly, her research and writing cover several subfields within Social Work, Sociology, and Social Anthropology.
She earned her doctoral research degree in Sociology by exploring dimensions of caste as an ‘Identity paradigm’ with a cultural spectrum over caste, class, social livelihood, and gendered lens in the multi-dimensionality of spatial experience.
She is passionate about cultures, people’s rights, identity-based interdisciplinary approaches, and social justice.
