PANELIST
Ruchira Gupta
Founder and President, Apne Aap Women Worldwide; Author and Activist
Ruchira Gupta is the founder-president of Apne Aap Women Worldwide and Apne Aap International and a social justice activist, feminist campaigner and journalist. For over three decades, she has been working for a world where no girl or woman is bought or sold. She has pioneered gender-sensitive interventions to end intergenerational prostitution among denotified tribes in India’s Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and West Bengal and has helped introduce anti-trafficking policies and laws across the globe. Her documentary, The Selling of Innocents, on the trafficking of girls from Nepal to India, won an Emmy and her young adult books, I Kick and I Fly and The Freedom Seeker, bring future social justice activists into our movement.