Cristelle Hart Singh

Cristelle Hart Singh is the co-founder of Dil Se and has over 13 years of experience in the prevention and healing of child sexual abuse. She facilitates adult awareness sessions and Comprehensive Sexuality and Personal Safety Education with children.

Certified as an Arts-Based Therapy practitioner by the Snehadhara Foundation in 2018, she joined the Arts Practices for Inclusion (API) programme as faculty in 2021. Her work centres on arts-based, trauma-informed, and inclusion-oriented practices, particularly with teenagers and women, supporting processes rooted in safety, agency, and embodied expression.

Cristelle has been married for 17 years and is a mother to two teenage boys. Beyond her professional work, she values spaces that invite presence and connection — time in nature, animal rescue, books and films, and facilitating circles for reflection and deep dialogue, including full-moon gatherings and SpiralMethod-based conversations.

Kumam Davidson

Queer Activist and Founder of Matai Society, Manipur, Kumam Davidson has a decade of transformative queer activism, community work, research, writing and consultancy. He is also Ex Co-founder of The Chinky Homo Project - queer digital anthology of Northeast India.

With expertise in digital storytelling, community building and community research across Manipur, Northeast India, he has produced extensive works from the region. He is also part of the LGBTQ networks in India and outside and has collaborated with institutions like the University of Sussex, University of California, Mariwala Health Initiative, Reframe Arts on pioneering community research including publications in HIV, mental health, and LGBTQIA lives in Routledge and Zubaan. He is Editor of the book “Mental Health Journey: Untold Stories of People from the Northeast of India”, shortlisted for Rainbow Book Prize 2024-25.

He currently co-leads LGBTQIA advocacy, indigenous livelihoods, psycho-social health, and trauma-informed interventions in conflict zones with focus on Manipur. He is advisor/consultant to young collectives and organisations in Northeast India working on similar issues.

Romana Sheikh

A global education leader and presence oriented facilitator, Romana integrates the science of trauma with the wisdom of wholeness.

Over the past 2 decades, she has developed her expertise in facilitating personal and systemic transformation that weaves an understanding of the human body-mind, sexuality, power relations and systemic oppression. Romana's experience spans across fields of mental health, education, peacebuilding, social entrepreneurship, and leadership. This combined with her lived experiences makes her a distinct and compelling voice in the revolution of Love and Justice.

As the co-founder of Kizazi, a global not for profit, she has led the development of education models that are contextually responsive and restorative of culture and identity in various parts of the world. She is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow and serves as a teaching assistant for the Presence Oriented Psychotherapy Diploma. Previously, she served as the Director of Training & Impact for Teach For India and as a faculty member for Comprehensive Sexuality Education Certification with Seeds of Awareness."

Ashita

Ashita is an art educator whose practice sits at the intersection of art, learning, and social transformation. With over a decade of experience, she works with process-driven methodologies to create spaces where art becomes a language for reflection, healing, and collective growth. She co-initiated ArtKaar Collective in 2023, with the intention of building a network of art educators, artists, and creative facilitators working with vulnerable communities. The collective positions art as a critical tool for fostering inclusion, and sustainable social change.

Ashita works with Kat-Katha, an organization dedicated to ending forced sex work, where she serves as the Operations and Strategy Lead. Using art as a tool for empowerment and inner work, she is engaged in building safe, creative spaces within the red light area. She currently divides her time between ArtKaar Collective and Kat-Katha. In the last decade, she has worked with organizations like Vidya and Child, Kat-Katha,Craftroots etc. engaging with art education, artists and different forms of performing arts.

Neelansh Sethi

Neelansh Sethi is a Co-founder of Kalpana Mehta’s Jumbish Society for Well-being. He is an Arts Practitioner for Inclusion and a library educator. He has worked with Denotified (DNT) communities for over five years, using art, play, and community libraries to create safe and inclusive spaces that support well-being.

Anuradha H R

"Anuradha HR is a theatre practitioner and an OD specialist with more than 25 years of industry experience, combining deep expertise in organizational development with a strong foundation in applied theatre and arts-based learning. Her present work is focused on customized applied theatre and art-based L&D interventions, alongside facilitation on gender sensitivity, POSH initiatives, and diversity and inclusion.

Alongside her corporate work, Anuradha is a professional theatre artist trained in applied theatre through Project Nadya with the Royal National Theatre, London, and has acted in more than 60 plays with extensive experience in production across over 95 plays. She has worked with leading theatre troupes and directors in Bangalore, received a state-level best actress award, and continues to perform through The Big Fat Company, the world’s first ensemble of plus size actors, which she founded. Her applied theatre practice spans Theatre in Education, work with children through schools and literacy programmes, and arts-based inclusion initiatives including faculty workshops at IIM Bangalore. She is also the Founder Director of The Organisation Development Company (The ODC) and Artistic Director of Untitled Arts Foundation, a not-for-profit working in community development, cultural spaces, and inclusion through the Arts.

Vasu Dixit

Vasu Dixit is a singer, songwriter, performer, and cultural practitioner, best known as the frontman of the Bengaluru-based folk-rock band Swarathma. Rooted deeply in folk traditions and social narratives, his music weaves together storytelling, satire, resistance, and everyday lived realities, often reflecting on themes of identity, justice, and collective memory.

Vasu brings a rare mix of playfulness and depth to his presence—warm, honest, and deeply connected to people. Whether through music or conversation, he creates spaces that feel alive, inviting listeners to both reflect and feel at home in shared rhythms and stories.

Gurupriya Atreya

Gurupriya Atreya is a singer, composer and an arts curator. Trained in Indian classical music since her childhood, she is currently a disciple of Ustad Faiyaz Khan. Staying rooted in the classical & semi-classical music traditions, she actively performs songs from the Bhakti & sufi traditions, ghazals, lends her voice to singing playback for films, commercial jingles & voice overs.

As a composer, educator & facilitator Gurupriya has worked with various dance companies, schools and productions.

Her recent debut as a music composer for a Kannada short film titled 'Rasam' has been recognised in many film festivals for 'Best Original Score'

Through her projects such as The Living Room Kutcheri, Sing a lullaby, as a facilitator of arts for children and other vulnerable population, she dreams of making a difference by bringing large groups of people, communities & cultures together, to form an inclusive society at large.

Naveen Thomas

Dr. Naveen I. Thomas spearheads Headstreams, an NGO dedicated to promoting human development. He has worked on skill development and livelihood-focused education among adolescents and youth from vulnerable and under-resourced communities across Karnataka. Headstreams has been recognised as a pioneer in reimagining learning through play.

Naveen brings wide-ranging experience in addressing vulnerability during crisis situations and has contributed to disaster response efforts in different parts of India. He has also engaged in health research and policy advocacy as part of the Community Health Cell and the WHO Watch Team of the People’s Health Movement.

He is actively involved in the design and facilitation of the Post-Graduate Diploma and other academic programmes in Human Development offered by Headstreams in partnership with several universities. Naveen holds a PhD in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He teaches Professional Ethics to master’s students and has served on the academic and research bodies of different organisations.