Amita Nigam Sahaya

Amita Nigam Sahaya is a social entrepreneur and gender activist. She is thedirector and founder of three NGOs including the Women Work & Health Initiative. She has authored and edited seven books on women and gender issues and translated to English the Hindi classic Jhansi ki Rani, Lakshmibai by her great-grandfather Vrindavanlal Verma.
Amita is co-founder of the Sweden India Gender Network (SIGN) and of India and Beyond the Dialogue Series, and has established two community education and development centres for the underprivileged in Delhi.