Neeta Hardikar is the executive director at ANANDI. Her work focuses on organising women and youth to initiate and deepen processes and strategies for gender equality and women’s human rights through their collectives, CSOs, state-led programmes, and campaigns. As a grassroots activist, researcher, and facilitator for the rights of women and young people, Neeta engages and influences national and state-level movements and campaigns for people’s right to food, health, and work for social protection.