Mar 08 2022 to Mar 08 2022 5 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Speakers

 Aarti Mundkur
Lawyer

Aarti Mundkur is a practising lawyer in Bangalore. She is a founder member of the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore (ALF) – a non-profit society that integrates litigation with critical research, alternative dispute resolution, pedagogic interventions and more generally maintaining sustained legal interventions in various social issues. She worked at ALF for thirteen years before setting up her own practice. While at ALF, she worked in the area of women and violence. She has served as a member of the Juvenile Justice Board, Bangalore, has been part of several consultations on amendments to Juvenile Justice Act, was part of the nation wide consultations on amendment to sexual assault law and was part of the drafting and recommending committee on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

 Veena Satyanarayana
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS

Veena Satyanarayana is an Additional Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. She provides psychotherapy services for individuals, couples and families, and supervises young trainees. She has worked on several prestigious national and international research grants on gender, violence, and women’s mental health in a leadership role. Much of her research work is also published in peer reviewed national and international journals. She has been invited as a technical expert by several national and international organisations, including the World Health Organization, in order to participate in policies and programs in the area of women’s mental health.

 Sneha Visakha
Research Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

Sneha Visakha is a Research Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Karnataka. Her areas of research include urban development, municipal governance and feminist urbanism. She is a 2015 law graduate from ILS Law College, Pune and pursued a postgraduate diploma in liberal studies from Ashoka University. She has previously worked at the Chairman’s office, Quality Council of India on projects with the Ministry of Petroleum and Ministry of Railways, and at the Hyderabad Urban Lab, where she researched legal and policy aspects of urban heritage conservation.