Founders Interview Series: Insia Dariwala Reflects on Sahiyo’s 10 Year Anniversary
About the Founder: Insia Dariwala is an award-winning international filmmaker/child rights activist, TEDx speaker, an Author, a Therapist, and a Creative Campaign Strategist who effectively uses her creative expertise to highlight various social evils, including, child sexual abuse (CSA), and female genital cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema. I was writing […]
Founders Interview Series: Mariya Taher Reflects on Sahiyo’s 10 Year Anniversary
About the Founder: Mariya Taher is a Co-founder of and the current Executive Director of Sahiyo. She has worked in gender-based violence for nearly fifteen years in the areas of teaching, research, policy, program development, and direct service. In 2018, Mariya received the Human Rights Storytellers Award from the Muslim American Leadership Alliance. After starting […]
Founders Interview Series: Priya Goswami Reflects on Sahiyo’s 10 Year Anniversary
About the Founder: Priya Goswami (she/her) is a Mozilla fellow, co-founder, and CEO of the feminist tech and social entrepreneurship app Mumkin App. In 2015, she co-founded Sahiyo, with four women, an international non-profit in the US and India today. She is a filmmaker by training, a recipient of the German Chancellor Fellowship, and a […]
Founders Interview Series: Aarefa Johari Reflects on Sahiyo’s 10 Year Anniversary
About the Founder: Aarefa Johari is a journalist, feminist, activist, and aspiring violinist based in Mumbai, India. She has been publicly speaking out against Female Genital Cutting since 2011 and was listed by News Deeply as one of six global experts on FGC to watch out for in 2017. Around 2011 I was working as […]