Trustees
 Panel of Advisors
Administration

TRUSTEES

Swarna Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Managing Trustee, is a Chennai-based political analyst and consultant.

Shilpa Anand is a Mumbai-based partner in Eastern Engineering Company, a pan-Indian firm involved in the textile machinery industry.

K. Jayalakshmi, or Jaya Menon as she is better known, is Political Editor, The Times of India, Chennai.

Dr. D. Jayashree is an Ayurvedic physician.

S.Sowmya is an eminent Carnatic vocalist.

PANEL OF ADVISORS

Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.

Rajmohan Gandhi, historian and biographer, presently at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General at CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

ADMINISTRATION

Subhashini Selvanathan

FORMER TRUSTEES

Sudha Ramachandran(2006-2009)
Ratna Mukherjee (2006-08)

PEOPLE AT PRAJNYA

Everyone working with Prajnya is currently volunteering; Prajnya depends largely on volunteers who commit their time, expertise and sometimes, their resources to work with us. We occasionally have full-time, but no permanent staff as yet.

With few financial resources, we are not in a position to offer salaries and therefore, each person has another job and the work that they do for us is honorary and part-time. In other words, what we lack as money, we have an abundance of in human resources.

ACROSS PRAJNYA INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES:

Nandhini Shanmugham, Nirupa Sundaravadanan, Anupama Srinivasan, Sweta Narayanan

INITIATIVE TEAMS

POLITICS, SECURITY AND WOMEN (PSW)

Swarna Rajagopalan, Initiative Director

Prajnya Resource Centre
Uma Vangal, Nandhini Shanmugham,
Sweta Narayanan, Archana Venkatesh

Prajnya Archives
Sudha Rajagopalan, Joost Kaptijn, curators

Saakshi Research Fellow
Linda Racioppi

Gender Violence Research and Information Taskforce
Anupama Srinivasan, Programme Director

The Hollaback! Chennai Team
Hamsini Ravi, Aishwarya S., Priya Raju, Anupama Srinivasan

PSW Associates
2011 Summer Intern
Varsha Koduvayur
2010 Summer Intern
Maheshwari Harikumar
2009 Summer Interns
M.D. Maheswari, S. Swarnalakshmi

2008 Advocacy Intern

Krithika S.
2008 PSW Summer Interns
Swati Seshadri, Nirmala Iswari, C. Sindhu

EDUCATION FOR PEACE (EPI)

Priyadarshini Rajagopalan, Initiative Director

EPI Associates
2008-2009 Groundwork Research Project funded by Sir Ratan Tata Trust
R. Akila
Anupama Srinivasan
2011 Peace Tales
Radhika Meganathan

Prabha Srinivasan

The Extended Prajnya Community (Once and Future Volunteers and Team Members)

Jayalakshmi Gopalan, Nirupama Sarathy, Narasimhan Varadhan, Ragini Rangarajan, Supraja T.A., Shalini Umachandran, Kavitha Muralidharan, Maithreyee Gopalan, R. Lalita, Vasughi K., Meera Srikant, Namitha Joseph, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, Hemant Shivakumar, Anand Philip, Reva Yunus, Dilip Raj, Richard, Matthew George, Kusum Rohra, Kavita Govindarajan