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Founder & CEO
Mathangi Swaminathan is an Echoing Green Fellow who has worked globally with women & girls for the last decade. Through the power of lived experience, she dreams of eliminating gender-based violence by identifying, supporting, and amplifying survivor-led grassroot organizations addressing the root causes of violence. Mathangi is also an Acumen India Fellow, a World Bank Scholar, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and was awarded the Jane Mansbridge Award by Harvard University for her work on reducing gender bias in organizations in India. She is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business. She loves hiking in the woods, reading and traveling.
Wellness Lead
Dr. Sanjyot Pethe brings in a vast experience of organizational development, leadership development, trauma informed coaching, research, teaching and process consulting. She holds an MBA and a PhD. She spent over a decade in academics has over 10 publications in national and international journals. She then worked as a Leadership and Talent development professional and later consultant designing and delivering organizational development initiatives and Leadership development programs, facilitating and coaching mid and senior level executives. Her passion for story work and her coaching experiences led her to Somatic experiencing. Feminist mentoring as well as narrative practices. Over the past few years, she has engaged with development sector through research, facilitation, process consulting and OD interventions. All these NGOs are engaged in working towards women related issues. She brought in Trauma Informed perspectives to both her leadership development and coaching work. She loves to read, write and collect stories. She also actively participates in facilitating reflective conversation circles. She has published a book on poetry called “Dance of the Peacock”.
Communications and Programs Associate
Born and raised in Kashmir, Khushboo brings a unique perspective to Parity Lab, deeply influenced by her commitment to social justice and storytelling. She relocated to Delhi in 2019 to pursue higher education and earned a degree in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia. With a strong passion for advocating women’s rights, she has worked on addressing human rights violations against women in Kashmir, striving to amplify their voices and create tangible change. A creative at heart, Khushboo has a deep love for films and filmmaking, viewing them as powerful tools for social change. Alongside her professional endeavors, she maintains an active and vibrant social media presence, using it to share stories, raise awareness, and engage with diverse communities. At Parity Lab, she is dedicated to fostering meaningful communication strategies and supporting programs that empower grassroots leaders in the fight against gender-based violence. When she isn’t working, Khushboo enjoys exploring the intersection of art and activism, traveling, and discovering narratives that inspire and challenge societal norms.
Associate Program Manager
Smriti Singh is a feminist development professional, striving to enhance her ability to support the advancement of efforts against Gender Based Violence (GBV). She brings in both a groundwork based value system, as well as a consulting based program designing and organization development capability. She gained invaluable field experience while completing her Master's degree in Social Work (Women-Centered Practice), where she closely observed, worked with, and learnt from organizations combating GBV across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. She transitioned to a social impact consulting firm, where she honed her technical expertise by assisting NGOs across various sectors. Her contributions were in areas such as designing flagship programs, conducting comprehensive research to address strategic big bet questions, establishing and codifying program processes, and integrating program management tools into an organization’s systems for an efficient scale-up. At Parity Lab, Smriti forges sincere connections with frontline GBV fighters, to support them in the best way possible as they strengthen the systems of relief, justice, and change around them. She hopes to continue to depend on reading and traveling for remaining connected with herself along the way!
Mulago Fellow & Founder, Uninhibited
With over 15 years of experience in the social impact sector, Dilip Pattubala has been at the forefront of driving systemic change at the intersections of public health, gender equity, and empowerment. His work has spanned multiple initiatives, from ensuring girls' access to education and healthcare to now exploring how engaging men and boys can contribute to broader gender equity outcomes. Dilip’s journey in this field began with menstrual health, a critical entry point that underscored the need for gender-specific approaches to achieving equity. As co-founder of Uninhibited, he played a key role in initiatives that reached nearly 500,000 girls and women across India, emphasizing dignity, autonomy, and long-term systemic change. Later, as the leader of the Menstrual Health Hub, he brought together a global coalition of 950 organizations to advocate for greater investment in menstrual health as a gateway to equity. His current work expands the conversation beyond menstrual health to examine the role of masculinities in achieving gender equality. He is particularly focused on reshaping societal norms around men and boys to foster healthier relationships, inclusive communities, and equitable systems. Through dialogues centered on care, responsibility, and equity, he aims to create spaces where all genders can thrive together. At this pivotal moment, Dilip is dedicated to building bridges across gender and expanding the discourse on systemic transformation. His work continues to be driven by the belief that engaging all genders is essential to achieving meaningful and lasting change.
Parity Lab
Mathangi Swaminathan is an Echoing Green Fellow who has worked globally with women & girls for the last decade. Through the power of lived experience, she dreams of eliminating gender-based violence by identifying, supporting, and amplifying survivor-led grassroot organizations addressing the root causes of violence. Mathangi is also an Acumen India Fellow, a World Bank Scholar, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and was awarded the Jane Mansbridge Award by Harvard University for her work on reducing gender bias in organizations in India. She is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business. She loves hiking in the woods, reading and traveling.
Ashoka, US
Krishna currently leads the U.S. Fellowship and Network at Ashoka, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. Previously she was a Foster America Fellow working at a statewide collaborative that strengthens underserved families, and reduces the number of families who touch the child welfare system. Krishna has led the Acumen India Fellowship, managed a community of over 130 social impact leaders, launched a women-led handicraft enterprise in Hyderabad, and set up a boutique hotel in California. Krishna holds a BS in Business from Babson College and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Assistant Professor, Rawls College of Business
Arun is an assistant professor of marketing at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech. Before joining Rawls College in 2022, Arun was an assistant professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB), India, and was the academic director of ISB's Centre for Business Innovation. Arun is an awarding-winning researcher and teacher. He recently won the prestigious 2020 Sheth Foundation Best Paper award for his research on new product introductions for low-income consumers in emerging markets. At ISB, he was a three-time winner of the Professor of the Year award for 2019, 2020, and 2021. As the director of ISB's Centre for Business Innovation, Arun, in partnership with Intel India, had secured grants worth $ 275,000 for setting up a virtual centre named Emerging Technology Centre (ETC). ETC aims to address governance challenges that can be solved by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, drone-based solutions, machine learning-based offerings and more. His research is either published or forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing and Production and Operations management. Arun's research broadly focuses on a firm's marketing and sales strategies and their impact on firm-level outcomes. He uses various quantitative techniques, including Bayesian structural equation modeling, causal inference and econometric modeling.
Chief Strategy Officer, Skoll Foundation
Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation and focuses on developing and amplifying the Foundation's work to enable lasting social change. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor and brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work. Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Shivani co-founded and led Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers who provide critical medical care to women and children in low-income communities around the world. Her technology-driven social innovation work has spanned the Grameen Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant and product manager in the private sector. Shivani is a proud and under-caffeinated mom of two. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Chief of Insights & Strategy, Acumen
As Chief of Insights & Strategy at Acumen, Amrita’s focus is on building capabilities across the organization to distill insights from patient capital investing, build centers of excellence, deepen Acumen’s impact voice to drive strategic conversation on what it takes to solve tough problems of poverty. In her previous roles at Acumen, Amrita served as the Chief of Business Development and Chief Financial Officer. Amrita is also on the Board of Directors of a number of Acumen’s investee companies – BURN Manufacturing (one of the world’s leading biomass cookstove design and manufacturing companies), Kheyti (an affordable “greenhouse in a box” solution for smallholder farmers) and WARC (an agriculture company focused on getting subsistence farmers out of poverty in Sierra Leone and Ghana). Prior to Acumen, Amrita was CFO of Katzenbach Partners, a dynamic management consulting firm. She was instrumental in the merger integration of Katzenbach with Booz & Co. In addition to her management role, Amrita consulted with clients across a range of industries with a focus on strategy and planning. Since then, she developed her own independent consulting practice with a focus on inspiring organizations in the social sector. Amrita has worked with Acumen in the past as a strategy consultant covering a range of topics such as clarifying Acumen’s business model, developing a multi-year operating plan and evaluating Acumen’s employee compensation plans. Amrita has also worked with Management Leadership for Tomorrow, Edelman and other professional services firms. Amrita received a BA in International Relations from The College of Wooster.
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist, UNICEF
Jyothi Ravichandran is a psychologist with over a decade of experience working with children, adolescents, and influential adults in their lives in clinical, community, and school settings. She founded Thrive Foundation in 2016 to address systemic cognitive, socio-emotional, and academic health in under-resourced schools in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She led the first ed-tech mandate of Social and Emotional (SEL) programming and teacher well-being in India through LEAD Schools. She holds a postgraduate degree in Psychology (Clinical) from Christ University, Bangalore. She is also a Young India Fellow (2016) and Acumen Fellow (2017).
Senior Director of Portfolio Fundraising Strategies, DRK Foundation
Emily supports the portfolio in their efforts to build successful and sustainable fundraising strategies that are tailored to each organization’s model and unique strengths. She is a whole-hearted non-profit leader with a lifelong commitment to equity and poverty alleviation. Emily dedicated the first two decades of her career to Summer Search, a national youth development organization that envisions a world where young people can fulfill their potential and lead families and communities to thrive. Emily’s interest in working at Summer Search was sparked by her experience attending Central, a Philadelphia public high school, where she watched her classmates break through barriers of poverty, access, and racism to graduate and go onto college. Emily graduated with a BA in African American Studies with a concentration in Sociology from Wesleyan University.
Founder, Girls Rights Project
Stacey Keare is an attorney, philanthropist, and public policy analyst. She, along with her husband, is the Founder of the Girls Rights Project, an organization dedicated to advancing the rights of girls throughout the world using a combination of research, advocacy and philanthropy. Ms. Keare studied international relations at Stanford University, has a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a law degree from Hastings College of the Law. She is a current Board Member of Women Moving Millions. She has also been on the Board of the San Mateo County Legal Aid Society and was a founding Board member of Summit Prep Charter High School and Summit Public Schools, organizations creating progressive college prep charter schools in the Bay Area. She is on the Bay Area Advisory Board of the Tahirih Justice Center, the Advisory Board of The Global Center for Gender Equality, and is on the Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board. Ms. Keare has three daughters, Haley, Ryan, and Brooke, and lives in Woodside, CA with her husband John Hodge.
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Vamsee Gurram is currently an Engagement Manager in McKinsey and Co and has served clients in the private equity, operations and public sector across India and the US. Prior to joining McKinsey in 2015, he was the founding team member of the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum where he was recognized by the World Economic Forum for nurturing 100+ social enterprises in India. As the program manager at Industree Crafts Foundation, he implemented Govt. of India and IFC projects to promote livelihoods through handicrafts. He helped set up community-owned business units impacting the livelihoods of 5000+ artisans and improving their incomes by 75%.Vamsee holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a Bachelors in engineering from BITS-Pilani. He is also an avid chess player and a foodie. When he is not working, you can find him on chess.com.
