Staff

Girisha became our Finance Assistant in January 2019, before which he was our Administration Assistant. He has completed his 1st PUC and has worked in a mobile shop, run a taxi service, and worked as a caterer.

Joyatri has served in UNWOMEN (formerly known as UNIFEM), with a particular focus on Women’s Human Rights. She has also served as Director – Corporate Social Responsibility for ING entities in India.

Apart from her role as director at EQUATIONS, she oversees the interventions of Women and Tourism and Caste and Tourism programme, and leads our work in Children and Tourism programme. Her interest lie in child protection, child sexual exploitation and online child sexual abuse. She is presently involved in influencing organised and unorganised tourism service providers to integrate child protection mechanisms within their business operations in India, as well as facilitating the formation of a network of civil society organisations focusing on the issue of child protection in travel and tourism.

Mousumi comes  from a rich background of development & nuevo corporate sector. Her expertise lies in setting up systems, people management practices and advocacy.. Being a people’s person human resources was an easy profession to pick for her & since then has demonstrated success in creating & executing HR strategies that deliver business & organisational results.
She had been with  VSO supporting the cause of volunteering for more than a decade where engaging & interacting with various multilateral donors , govt agencies, and diplomatic mission was part of her job profile. She was part of the senior leadership team in Greenpeace in various capacities and led Greenpeace during the crisis period.
She helped various start-up businesses providing them with advice & direction along with participating in their entrepreneurial dream.
Along with that she is also a trained healer with a professional qualification in counselling, reflexology and acupuncture.

Nayana oversees the work at EQUATIONS on coastal tourism and tourism in forest areas. She holds a degree in law from the Gujarat National Law University. She started out by trying to understand the many ways in which the law can be used outside of court rooms, and facilitated workshops on environmental laws for adivasi communities in Odisha. At EQUATIONS, Nayana’s work involves critically examining tourism in forest areas, particularly in the Western Ghats region and asking questions about the actual benefits from tourism to forest communities. She also co-ordinates the work on coastal tourism in India.

When not at work, Nayana spends most of her time dancing and singing or practising martial arts.

Nino comes equipped with a masters degree in Social Work from Roshni Nilaya , Mangalore. She is also a certified Master Trainer for Cambridge University and is a qualified therapist. In her free time, she plays agony aunt, loves to travel, cook and feed people.

In EQUATIONS she coordinates the Tourism Resource Centre which includes EQUATIONS publications, the library and the website. She is responsible for the internal and external communication systems and external engagement of EQUATIONS. She’s previously worked with Samvada, Legacy School, Murray Culshaw Consulting, Deepalaya and Guestline Days. She has also been a behaviour & soft skills trainer and has trained and developed a digital course in communications and fund-raising.

Siddhi has a Masters in Development from Azim Premji University. She has experience in working with minorities through research and fact findings into communal incidents.
At EQUATIONS’ she works on child and women related issues in tourism across four states.
Apart from work she loves to paint and DIY, is a diehard foodie and experiments in cooking different Indian cuisines

Sophia joined EQUATIONS in March 2018. Sophia has earlier been with Bal Pharma, Airtel and Lead Pro Consultancy Pvt Ltd as data entry and backend executive. She has completed her PUC.
She is cheerful fantastic cook who loves to feed people.

Stella completed her law degree in 2013. Since then she has been working with local communities to facilitate strengthening of their decision-making on environmental governance. She has previously worked to facilitate community dialogues with Adivasi communities in Odisha around mining and forest degradation, and with fishworkers in Lakshadweep on changing fisheries and climate change.
In EQUATIONS, she is working with coastal fish-workers to document how changing coastal tourism under the Blue Economy model impacts fishing communities. She also collaborates with fish-workers' unions and other CSOs to build campaign and advocacy to support fish-workers' rights over coastal commons.
Stella calls herself a storyteller and believes that the world is best understood as stories that we tell ourselves and each other.

Suhotra Biswas, born and brought up in Kolkata. I completed my MSW and PG diploma in counselling. working in development sector for more than 24 years. Worked in various community based organizations, national and international level funding agencies like CRY – Child Right & You and Railway Children -UK.
A certified Arts based practitioner and trained in psycho social support skill building . Worked on issues related to child rights and with special focus on child protection and child participation. Experienced in working closely with different vulnerable group like PLWHA, women forced into sex trade, children in conflict with law, gender variant boys, people in drug addiction, run away children etc.
Skilled in program management, MEL  and training and capacity building. Trained on Child Safe Guard by Keeping Children Safe – England.
 A born nature lover , Love travelling, trekking and camping and keenly interested in exploring and conserving indigenous culture and various forms of folk arts.  other hobbies include gardening, bird watching.   

Theresa is in charge of our finance and admin departments. She has Master’s degree in Commerce and a Diploma in Office Management. She worked in the accounts departments of reputed NGOs for nearly 32 years and spent three years with private companies as Accounts Officer cum Administrator.