We equip, mobilize, educate, and empower women
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
Executive Director, C3
Aparajita Gogoi is a champion for health and gender equality, working with a single mission to make the lives of girls and women in India better. She has almost three decades of extensive experience in defining approaches and strategies, and building campaigns on community mobilization and amplification of women’s voices. She holds a PhD (International Politics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been accorded recognition for her work in various forums - on 8th March 2011, Guardian, UK marked International Women’s Day by selecting 100 of world’s most inspiring women, and Dr Gogoi was named as one of these 100 women.
Board Members

C3 does not pay any fee/remuneration/salary/benefits to any member of its
Board and Governing Body.

  • Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
    Executive Director

    Dr. Gogoi is the Executive Director of C3. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has three decades of experience in program management, with expertise in designing and implementing programs, advocacy campaigns, and defining approaches and strategies for policy issues in population. A winner of the WIE Humanitarian Award, Dr. Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world by The Guardian of UK.

  • Dr. Nozer K Sheriar
    Member

    Dr. Sheriar is a leading Mumbai-based obstetrician and gynaecologist with a longstanding commitment to the advocacy and promotion of women’s health and rights. He is the Former Secretary General of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India, Former President of the Mumbai Obstetric and Gynaecological Society and Former Scientific Chair of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He is a member of the Governing Boards of Guttmacher Institute and Ipas, and Technical Advisor to the South East Asia Region of the World Health Organization. He is the Co-chair of the Medical Advisory Panel of the Family Planning Association of India. He has edited and authored numerous scientific publications.

  • Dr. Suneeta Mukherjee
    Chairperson

    Dr. Mukherjee’s areas of expertise range from reproductive health to gender and advocacy. She has served for nearly four decades in the Indian Administrative Service and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Having led teams in several countries in Asia, she retired in 2010 from the UNFPA as its Country Representative in the Philippines.

  • Mr. Akshat Babbar
    Treasurer

    Mr. Babbar is a Vice President at ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm in India with over $4 billion in assets under management. He leads the Technology Services investments for the firm. Previously he worked with Goldman Sachs. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, NYU Stern School of Business, and Shri Ram College of Commerce, he comes with over a decade of experience in the financial services sector.

  • Mr. Brian Almeida
    Member

    Mr. Almeida is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Points for People, an award-winning charity platform than enables its members to donate their loyalty points to charity, and the Managing Partner at Strategic Caravan International; he also serves as a Director on the Boards of Cartesian Consulting, a leading data analytics firm, and Sisecam Flat Glass India. With over 25 years of experience as a Communications expert, he has launched several leading loyalty programs, including the British Airways Executive Club in South Asia, Taj Inner Circle, Jet Privilege, PetroBonus, First Citizen Club for Shoppers Stop and Inquimed - a medical portal for Pfizer’s. He has been serving as a jury member for the Loyalty Magazine Awards UK from 2015 to 2020.

  • Ms. Dipa Nag Chowdhury
    Secretary

    Ms. Dipa Nag Chowdhury works as an independent consultant in the population and reproductive health field. Dipa worked at the India office of the MacArthur Foundation from 1998 to 2019. In her role as Deputy Director, she led the Foundation’s grantmaking on maternal health, young people’s sexual and reproductive health and girls’ secondary education. Dipa has previously worked at Naz Foundation (India) Trust, Delhi; the Mailman School of Public Health at the Columbia University, New York; and the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. Dipa has masters’ degrees in Public Administration from Syracuse University in the US and Political Science from Mumbai University.

  • Ms. Divya Sampath
    Member

    Ms. Sampath has 25+ years of leadership experience in the technology and consulting industries. Currently, she is a sponsor/portfolio partner at AWE Funds. She has built and managed high performance cross-border teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia in roles spanning business development, operations and customer success. As an angel investor and mentor, she works with multiple start-ups in fields as diverse as agritech, workplace automation, sustainability, ecommerce and fintech. Her interests include digital skill development, sustainable development, women empowerment, Digital transformation and Cloud, AI, Analytics.

  • Ms. Divyashree Bhat
    Member

    Ms. Bhat is the Industry Head for the Conglomerates vertical at Google India, bringing over 17 years of experience across consulting, technology, and media. A sales and marketing leader, she has worked with utilities, retail, and digital-first businesses, driving growth and innovation at scale. Her expertise includes scaling businesses, building brands that reach over 100 million users, and expanding the digital ecosystem for Indian languages. She has had a ringside view to digitization and the growth of ecommerce in India. She is an alumnus of Indian School of Business with a specialization in Marketing, and holds an Engineering degree from RVCE, Bangalore. Ms. Bhat is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and facilitates programs for underrepresented groups to sponsor and empower their achievements.

     

  • Ms. Ghazala Amin
    Member

    Ms. Amin is an Associate Professor of History in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has worked as a Citizen Warden with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. She has extensive experience in anchoring and producing television programs. She has anchored a women's magazine program for ETV, which was telecast in 26 countries, and has anchored the Asian Magazine for BBC TV in London.

Catalysts of Change

Team Members
Assam
  • Aktarul Hassan
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Bikash Das
    Program Associate - Adolescent & Young People

  • Lalita Deka
    State Head - Assam

  • Madhuryya Sarma
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Nilutpala Bora
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Priyanka Sarmah
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Rajashri Saikia
    Program Officer - Gender Equity

Bihar
  • Aakash Kumar Singh
    Program Officer - Community Processes & Capacity Building

  • Abhishek Kumar
    Regional Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Aditya Raj
    District Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Ajay Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Family Planning

  • Akhileshwar Prasad
    Office Assistant

  • Anuj Kumar
    Regional Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Anupam Kumar Hindustani
    Regional Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Arun Kumar
    Block Coordinator - Gender Equity

Chhattisgarh
  • Amardeep Kumar
    Field Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Basarat Ali
    Block Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Jasinta Minj
    Field Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Jayant Sahu
    Office Assistant

  • Manish Ranjan
    Senior Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People

  • Mrinmayee Mandal
    Administrative & Finance Associate

  • Pushplata Das
    Field Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Reji S Kuruvilla
    Senior Program Officer - Reproductive Health & Rights

Hyderabad
  • Gummadi Keerthi
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Juveriya Begum
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Shaik Arshad
    Program Associate - Adolescent & Young People

Jharkhand
  • Abhinav Kumar
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Abhinav Kumar
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People

  • Ajay Kumar Singh
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

  • Aman Das
    Field Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Amita Sinha
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People

  • Anjali Kumari
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People

  • Arpana Kumari
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People

  • Avinash Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

Mohali
  • Romi Chaturvedi
    Program Associate - Adolescent & Young People

New Delhi
  • Ajay Kumar
    Specialist – Knowledge Management

  • Aman Gupta
    Accounts Officer

  • Ankita Banerjee
    Program Officer-Sustainability

  • Arun Kumar
    Director - Operations

  • Aseema Mahunta
    Specialist - Reproductive Health & Rights

  • Ashok Kumar
    Driver

  • Bhagvat Prasad Dubey
    Program Officer - Knowledge Management

  • Chaitanya Tupaki Sreepoorna
    Senior Program Officer - Joint Action for NPM & Midwifery Communications

Odisha
  • Aditya Narayan Panda
    Block Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Ashok Kumar Nayak
    State Head - Odisha

  • Binod Kumar Das
    Block Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Biswaranjan Singh
    Block Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Himanshu Singh
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Jagadish Chandra Behera
    District Coordinator - Reproductive Health & Rights

  • Prabhusankar Baghel
    Block Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Pravat Kumar Patro
    Administrative & Finance Officer

Rajasthan
  • Akshya Srivastava
    Senior Program Officer - Gender Equity

  • Amar Chand Kumawat
    Administrative & Finance Officer

  • Asha Ram Meena
    Block Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Brijmohan Sharma
    Block Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Duli Chand
    Block Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Gayatri Joshi
    District Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Kalpana Gupta
    Program Officer - Gender Equity

  • Kaushal Kishor Sharma
    District Coordinator - Gender Equity

Uttar Pradesh
  • Abhijeet Singh
    Block Project Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Akhilesh Kumar Dubey
    Senior Program Officer - Community Engagement and Capacity Building

  • Amit Bhatnagar
    Administrative & Finance Officer

  • Amit Kumar
    Block Project Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Anjali Datta
    Technical Consultant, Panchayati Raj Community Engagement and Capacity Building

  • Anjnee Kumar Mishra
    Block Project Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Arvindra Kumar
    Block Project Coordinator - Gender Equity

  • Ashok Kumar Sharma
    District Coordinator - Gender Equity

Uttarakhand
  • Arun Sharma
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Faisal Shakeel
    Admin & Finance Associate

  • Lekhraj Singh
    Training Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Priyanka
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Sandhya
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Shilpi
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Shripal
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

West Bengal
  • Modhumita Adak
    Project Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People

  • Monalisa Hazra Bhakta
    Program Associate - Adolescent & Young People

  • Pritish Banerjee
    Project Coordinator - Women Economic Empowerment

  • Rimpa Denre
    School Coordinator - Adolescent & Young People