Sushma Iyengar

Sushma Iyengar is a social worker. She founded Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, the well-known women’s collective in the late eighties. During the past three decades, she has founded and led organizations in the area of gender justice, indigenous cultures, traditional livelihoods, local governance, and post disaster rehabilitation. She is associated with many civil society organizations in India as a mentor and educator and is the president of Khamir, a platform for craft artisans which works with the eco systems of their crafts, and an adjunct professor with the Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University.  Her publications include Picture This! Painting the Women’s Movement (University of Chicago, 2013). She is the lead curator of the exhibition ‘Living Lightly – Journeys with Pastoralists’ – an outcome of her longstanding interest and experience with indigenous communities, including nomadic pastoralists.