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. 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.

  • Ms. Sheila Seda
    Secretary

    Ms. Seda is the Secretary General of the Trained Nurses Association of India She is a well-known advocate for rights of nurses, and has worked steadfastly to uphold the dignity and honor of the nursing profession, promoting high standards of health care and nursing practice and advancing the cause of professional, educational, socio-economic and general welfare of nurses.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ms. Dipa Nag Chowdhury
    Member

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dr. Aparajita Gogoi

    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.

Catalysts of ChangeTeam Members
Bihar
  • Aakash Kumar Singh
    PO - Community Processes & Capacity Building
  • Ajay Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Family Planning
  • Akhileshwar Prasad
    Office Assistant
  • Dharni Dhar
    Accounts Assistant
  • Debadrita Das
    Program Associate - Midwifery
  • Gunjan Bihari
    Specialist - Gender Integration
  • Kumar Rajan
    Administrative Officer
  • Kumar Alok
    Senior Program Officer - Pahel
  • Prabhat Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent and Young People
  • Prakash Ranjan
    Specialist, Capacity Building and Community Engagement
  • Shambhu Kumar
    Driver
Chhattisgarh
  • Bhagwati Kumari
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Dilip Sarwate
    State Head - Chhattisgarh
  • Jayant Sahu
    Office Assistant
  • Manish Ranjan
    PO - Adolescent & Young people
  • Reji S Kuruvilla
    Senior Program Officer- Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Swarupa Pandit
    Program Associate – Reproductive Health & Rights
New Delhi
  • Ajay Kumar
    Sr. Program Officer – Knowledge Management
  • Aman Gupta
    Accounts Officer
  • Ankita Banerjee
    Program Officer, Sustainability
  • Arun Kumar
    Director - Operations
  • Aseema Mahunta
    Senior Program Officer-Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Ashok Kumar
    Driver
  • Bhagvat Prasad Dubey
    Program Officer - Knowledge Management
  • Charulata Mukherjee
    Program Associate - Sustainability
  • Chaitanya Tupaki Sreepoorna
    Senior Program Officer - Joint Action for NPM & Midwifery Communications
  • Fiza Alam Zaidi
    Program Officer - Gender Equity
  • Gulrukh Farooqui
    Program Co-ordinator, Unniti
  • Kunda Gupta
    Head-HR
  • Kaniz Fatima Muneeza
    Senior Specialist – Family Planning
  • Krishnendu Sengupta
    Specialist – Sustainability
  • Kamal Kumar
    Finance Associate
  • Madhu Joshi
    Lead - Gender Equity
  • Mercy Manoranjini
    Lead - Knowledge Management
  • MMS Rawat
    Office Assistant
  • Mohammed Ziauddin
    Senior Specialist - Adolescent & Young people
  • Neha
    Communication Associate – Office of the Executive Director
  • Nidhi Jain
    Finance Associate
  • Nikita
    Program Officer-Women Economic Empowerment
  • Nivedita Singh Parmar
    Program Officer – HNI
  • Pooja Singh
    Administrative Assistant
  • Rohini Banerjee
    Program Officer - Digital Communication
  • Rishabh Ravi Jain
    Program Associate - Digital Communication
  • Rahul Thapa
    Office Assistant, Finance
  • Rakhi Miglani
    Senior Specialist – Program Communications
  • Rakhi Sharma
    Capacity Building Executive
  • Rahul Kumar
    Office Assistant
  • Rahul Chandra
    Finance Associate
  • Dr Rashmi Asif
    Lead – Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Satish Kumar
    Senior Finance Officer
  • Dr Shikha Bhasin
    Program Officer – Knowledge Management, RHR
  • Shubha Bhattacharya
    Specialist-Gender Equity
  • Shama Shanmugam
    Administrative & Procurement Officer
  • Sonal Daftuar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Sumit
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Surender Singh
    Driver
  • Thuangampou Gangmei
    Program Officer-Communication Design
  • Tina Ravi
    Senior Specialist-Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Urooj R
    Program Associate – Communications
  • Umed Singh
    Care Taker
  • Vandana Nair
    Lead – AYP
  • Varuni Narang
    Senior Program Officer – Program Communications
  • Vartika Bhandari
    Officer, HR
  • Vishal Kumar
    Office Assistant
  • Yashvi Sharma
    Program Officer - Capacity Building
Jharkhand
  • Ajay Kumar Singh
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Akash Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Avinash Kumar
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people
  • Amar Chand Kumawat
    Administrative Officer
  • Avinash Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Bijay Kumar Tewary
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people
  • Byomkesh Kumar Lall
    Senior Program Officer - Community processes & Capacity building (Adolescent & Young people)
  • Chandan Kumar Roy
    Program Officer – Reproductive Health & Rights
  • Deepak Kumar
    Program Officer-Adolescent and Young People
  • Gaurav Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Kundan Singh
    Program Officer-Adolescent and Young People
  • Om Prakash Singh
    State Head - Jharkhand
  • Prince Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Rakesh Kumar Arya
    Accounts Assistant
  • Rohan Hazra
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Youth People
  • Sanjay Ram
    Office Assistant
  • Shrawan Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
  • Dr. Sujata Chakraborty Kar
    Program Officer - Knowledge Management
  • Ujjwal Kumar Pathak
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young People
Odisha
  • Ashok Kumar Nayak
    State Head- Odisha
  • Himanshu Singh
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people
  • Priyambada Dash
    Program Officer - RHR
  • Pravat Kumar Patro
    Administrative & Finance Officer
  • Suchismita Mishra
    Program Associate – RHR
Punjab
  • Amol Kaur
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People
Uttarakhand
  • Arun Sharma
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people
  • Faisal Shakeel
    Admin & Finance Associate
Uttar Pradesh
  • Anjali Datta
    Technical Consultant, Panchayati Raj Community Engagement and Capacity Building
  • Amit Bhatnagar
    Admin & Finance Officer
  • Akhilesh Kumar Dubey
    Senior Program Officer - Community Engagement and Capacity Building
  • Sharad Singh
    Program Associate - Midwifery
  • Sucheta Shukla
    State Head - Uttar Pradesh
Telangana
  • Anuradha Devanaboina
    Senior Program Officer - RHR
Maharashtra
  • Rahul Manikrao Vairat
    Program Officer- Reproductive Health and Rights