While browsing Action Aid’s website ahead of a job interview, I came across Srilatha Batliwala’s name. Out of curiosity, I googled it and found that we’re both Bangaloreans interested in many of the same things. Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist activist, researcher, scholar and trainer whose four and a half decades of work has spanned grassroots movement building with marginalized urban and rural women, research and scholarly work, policy advocacy, grant-making, and capacity building of young women activists around the world. Above all, she is well known for building theory from practice, including on women’s empowerment, women’s movements, and feminist approaches to movement building, monitoring and evaluation, and feminist leadership. She is currently Senior Advisor, Knowledge Building,
Meet Srilatha Batliwala
Meet Srilatha Batliwala
Meet Srilatha Batliwala
While browsing Action Aid’s website ahead of a job interview, I came across Srilatha Batliwala’s name. Out of curiosity, I googled it and found that we’re both Bangaloreans interested in many of the same things. Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist activist, researcher, scholar and trainer whose four and a half decades of work has spanned grassroots movement building with marginalized urban and rural women, research and scholarly work, policy advocacy, grant-making, and capacity building of young women activists around the world. Above all, she is well known for building theory from practice, including on women’s empowerment, women’s movements, and feminist approaches to movement building, monitoring and evaluation, and feminist leadership. She is currently Senior Advisor, Knowledge Building,