Feminist Media as an Alternative Mainstream Media: Lessons and the Way Forward amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Japleen Pasricha on Feminist Media as an Alternative Mainstream Media: Lessons and the Way Forward amid the Pandemic.
Greetings from the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi!
On behalf of the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI, GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation and Delhi Post News, we invite you to a IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk –
The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: December 9, 2020; Wednesday
Time: 17:00 IST (GMT+5:30)
Platform: Zoom and Facebook live
Speaker:
Japleen Pasricha, Founder-director & Editor-in-Chief, Feminism in India (FII)
Japleen smashes the patriarchy for a living! She is the founder-director & editor-in-chief of Feminism in India (FII), an award-winning digital feminist media platform. She is also a TEDx speaker and was recognised as a Young Innovator in 2018 by World Summit Awards. Japleen has Masters and M.Phil degrees in German Studies and used to be a German language lecturer at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Amity University, Noida.
Prior to starting FII, she worked with multiple women’s rights NGOs in India like Breakthrough India and Point of View. She has also worked with Freedom House, a non-profit based in the USA, on a research report and advocacy campaign on online violence against women. She was featured by The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in a book on ‘Women in Tech’ for her work at FII and facilitated by Maneka Gandhi and Ministry of Women & Child Development, GoI as Web Wonder Woman.
She has also been recognised by the Swedish Foreign Minister for her work on the gender gap on Wikipedia. Currently, Japleen oversees the strategic vision and growth at FII. She likes to garden, travel, hike, swim and cycle and is slowly moving towards a sustainable lifestyle.
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