Bio

Vanita Nayak Mukherjee from India is an Executive Committee Member and co-leads DAWN’s Feminists for a People’s Vaccine (FPV) Campaign and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) thematic analysis team. Vanita has been a part of the feminist and social movements in Kerala, India since the early 1980s, and worked with feminist groups and networks in various capacities contributing to advocacy, capacity building and action-research. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Holland and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Vanita was a Program Officer and later, a Senior Advisor on Gender at the Ford Foundation’s India, Nepal and Sri Lanka office directing the Civil Society and Social Justice and the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice portfolios.