Dr. Elora Halim Chowdhury is an Assitant Professer of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachussets. Her teaching and research interests include critical development studies, third world/transnational feminisms, globalization and women’s organizing in Bangladesh. She has worked with various philanthropic/development organizations in Bangladesh and the U.S. The title of her current book project is Transnationalism Reversed: Engaging Development, NGO Politics and Women’s Organizing in Bangladesh.
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Shamita Das Dasgupta is a cofounder of Manavi, Inc, one of the first domestic violence organizations in North America which focuses on gender abuse in the South Asian community. She has published numerous articles in the women’s empowerment field and written many books regarding domestic violence issues, including The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales (1995, Interlink Books), A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America (1998, Rutgers University Press), and Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America (2007, Rutgers University Press). She is currently an adjunct assistant professor of clinical law at the NYU Law School.
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Dr. Nusrat Ameen has devoted her professional career towards fighting against gender abuse, completing her PhD in domestic violence and working towards implementing legal laws for dealing with domestic violence in Bangladesh. She is currently conducting research at Rice University and also serves as the Transitional Home Coordinator for Daya, a South Asian domestic violence organization located in Houston.
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