Jennifer Liang, the Managing Trustee, has a post graduate degree in social work from TISS and has specialized in social research methods. She has worked directly on health and women’s issues in Assam and is on the Board of a number of NGOs in the northeast. A founder trustee, she also trains as IDeA faculty.

Sunil Kaul, a founding trustee is a public health activist who worked as a medical doctor in the army for some years, and then left his job to work for primary health care in rural areas of Rajasthan and Assam. An Eisenhower Fellow, he is interested in community health especially with respect to malaria and T.B, and also works as faculty at IDeA.

V K Madhavan, is currently the Executive Director of CHIRAG, a NGO working in Himalayan state of Uttaranchal. He has been the Secretary of Urmul Setu, a rural NGO in Rajasthan for many years and has also worked with well known International NGOs like ActionAid and The Hunger Project.

Our founding trustees also include Shri Rabindranath Upadhyay, a known Sarvodaya worker who has since 1962, worked in Baksa in rural upliftment through Khadi and Village Industries. He has vast experience and is associated with a number of organisations at the regional and national levels. Shri R N Upadhyay won the presitigious Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Social Work in 2003 and is also a Padmashree awardee.

Jyoti Basumatary is a lecturer at Bongaigaon College and teaches Bodo language. He is an avid writer and a local wit. Until recently he was editing the popular Bodo monthly Rowrathan.