OUR CURRENT MEMBERS
Nishma Jethwa
Nishma (she/they) is the co-founder of End Cyber Abuse. She is a facilitator, educator and activist who has been organising for liberation and working to build anti-oppressive spaces for the last 10 years. She is originally from London with roots and community in Gujarat and Mumbai. For the past five years, Nishma has been working with groups and individuals to transform and embed anti-oppressive frameworks, to support organisational and community development, and to build and deliver training curricula rooted in feminist liberatory practice. She is experienced in working within and at the intersections of various areas including digital rights, gender justice, labour rights, antiracism, generative conflict, transformative justice and community accountability, and South Asian diasporas. She is a lawyer by training, bringing to this title a critical lens around punitive and individualistic approaches to harm, conflict and abuse. Nishma holds a BSc in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Warwick, as well as other educational endeavours in law, human rights, digital studies etc.
Chitraganda Sharma
Chitrangada (she/her) is an academic lawyer and a feminist-policy advocate based in Delhi, India. She holds an LL.M. degree with a specialization in criminal and constitutional law from the National Law University, Delhi, and is a doctoral research scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU. Her doctoral thesis is centered around courtroom ethnography of trials of image-based sexual violence in India. Her areas of interest include gender and law, victimology, and visual culture. She endeavors to work towards bringing survivor-centric reforms in the law, which are sensitive to the experiences of marginalized communities.
Kavita Dattani
Dr Kavita Dattani is a feminist researcher of digital technologies. Broadly, Kavita’s work seeks to uncover the ways in which new digital technologies are enabling particular forms of marginality and the potentials for overcoming these. She has conducted research on biometric technologies, gig-economy work platforms and digital dating apps. Having completed her PhD in Human Geography at QMUL, she will take up post-doctoral research fellowship at Oxford Internet Institute.
Inaya Hussain
Inaya (she/her) is a London-based creative and community organiser. She is interested in disrupting and generating space through sonic and visual art; working with music, radio, writing and filmmaking. She has written pieces for several online publications on topics such as culture, identity, politics, poetry and spoken word, and is an experienced radio and podcast host and producer. Inaya is currently completing an MSc in Digital Anthropology at UCL, where she shot and edited her first ethnographic documentary and is conducting her research on Qawwali practice in the British Asian diaspora. She hosts her monthly radio show on Foundation FM. You can find her mixes and past radio shows here: https://soundcloud.com/inaya87/tracks.
OUR ADVISORS
Akhila Kolisetty
Akhila (she/her) is the co-founder of End Cyber abuse as well as a lawyer, feminist policy advocate, and writer currently based in the United States. She has consulted and worked internationally on women’s rights, gender violence in online and offline spaces, and the legal empowerment of marginalized communities in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. In New York, she has provided legal representation to survivors of domestic violence, including survivors of image-based sexual abuse and cyber harassment. She is passionate about transformative justice for survivors of techi abuse and gender-based violence and about centering intersectional feminist perspectives. In 2015-2016, she was a Presidential Fellow with the Open Society Foundations. She holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Kamardip Singh
Kamardip (she/they) comes from the international women’s rights world. She/they have nearly 15 years of experience fundraising, grantmaking, and organizing with grassroots groups on feminist goals, gender justice, and racial justice. They have a special focus on the politics of resourcing for community organizers. They recently completed their Masters in International Human Rights Law, focusing on non-discrimination, freedom of speech, and digital activism.
OUR PAST MEMBERS
Esha Meher
Esha (she/her) is a human rights lawyer of South Asian descent. Her academic and professional interests lie in the laws governing technology, gender rights and religion. She is currently a Fellow at Information Society Project at Yale Law School working at the intersections of society and technology. She has previously worked as a legal counsel in India and UK, advising and appearing in constitutional as well as commercial matters. She has also worked as a consultant in legal matters in the United States of America, The Pacific Islands of Vanuatu and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
Sailaja Darisipudi
Sailaja (she/her) is a writer, activist, and educator based in the US who is working towards a career in public health with the goal of addressing gendered disparities in health care systems and improving medical access to marginalized communities. She believes passionately in fighting for gender equality, making quality education accessible across socio-economic status, increasing awareness of and destigmatizing mental health concerns within South Asian communities, and decreasing the gap between public education and the complexities of the American health care system. An alumnus of Rutgers University, she has written and edited for newspapers such as RU Examiner and EMSOP Chronicles and led various educational test preparation programs at Rutgers University and in local religious communities. She greatly values the opportunity End Cyber Abuse gives her to help create safer online spaces for marginalized vulnerable communities.
Habiba Akther
Habiba (she/her) is a London-based rights activist and is currently working as a legal researcher and writer for an international organisation. She holds a degree in International Relations from Goldsmiths, and a MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS. Her master’s thesis explored prosecution strategies to hold Daesh accountable for crimes against humanity. Her interests include civil liberties, access to justice for marginalised groups, tech, and women’s rights issues in the Global South. She has written for various platforms including sister-hood magazine, Lets Talk Palestine, and Another Lenz. She also leads Communications and Outreach at The Rights Collective.
JOIN US
End Cyber Abuse operates a membership model where interested individuals can apply to join the collective in a non-hierarchical role. If you are interested in joining, please email hello@endcyberabuse.org with your C.V. and a cover letter explaining your experience working on this issue, your interest in joining the collective and the work you would like to do here