Meet the Team

The core of SLD is a team of highly motivated and dedicated individuals. With in-depth subject knowledge and experience the team, together aims to fulfil the aspirations of workers across sectors, thereby edging businesses towards being much more ethical and responsible.

  • With over a decade of experience that spans across both, national as well as international not for profit organisations, Allan looks after the complete Human Resource and Administration verticals of SLD. He possesses a thorough knowledge of organizational policies and processes.

    Allan is an alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics and is an avid Formula 1 fan. He loves spending his leisure hours outdoors with mother nature.

  • An alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Studies, Mumbai, Ashmita Sharma, is the Executive Director at Society for Labour and Development. An awardee of the Prof. Chhaya Datar Award for her research, ‘Experiencing Widowhood in Vrindavan’, Ashmita is an MPhil in Women’s Studies and is recognized for her numerous publications on the subject. Along with her team of dedicated individuals, she envisions reaching out to larger audiences to not just improve the working conditions of workers, but also to bring about cordial and mutually respectful relationships between workers and industries. She was also a curriculum developer in the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and significantly supported the project titled, ‘e-PG Pathshala: e-Content Creation for Postgraduate Students’.

  • Humaira is a Senior Program Coordinator in SLD and has been with the organization since 2021. She looks into the training and sensitization of workers from the garment and leather industries in Kanpur, Unnao and Kannouj regions of Uttar Pradesh. Prior to her current role with SLD, Humaira worked as a primary school teacher for over 6 years.

  • Kanchan is a consultant field organiser and is based out of the National Capital Region. She takes great pride in her work and plays an instrumental role in mobilizing and organizing women workers, especially from the garment industry in the capital’s Kapashera area.

  • Puja is a social worker who primarily writes, researches, documents and contemplates. An Alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences she is a Masters in social work (Public Health) and a bachelors in English literature. Her work focuses on researching, documenting, and highlighting the inaccuracies in the narrative building of marginalized communities. As the Associate Senior Manager - Programs, she contributes to the ongoing assessments and analysis to understand incidences of gender-based violence (GBV) at the workplace and public spaces, to map points of strategies to bring about cases of GBV among vulnerable individuals, and work towards making these cases visible to the outside world. She builds knowledge and understanding regarding the POSH ACT (2013). Puja aims to contribute to creating a world that is not only gender equitable but also celebrates gender-diverse people and communities.

  • A graduate from Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Rajesh has over five years of experience in the development sector. Rajesh is SLD’s project coordinator in our Veraval office in Gujarat and has been a part of the team since 2020. He is responsible for the execution of our intervention programmes in the region that primarily focus on workers in the sea food processing industry.