IAWRT Biennial conference schedule - The International Association

36th IAWRT Biennial Conference
15-18 September 2015
New Delhi
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Monday 14th September
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Tuesday 15th September
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Wednesday 16th September
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Thursday 17th September
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Friday 18th September
7-9
About the Speakers
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Sponsors
MONDAY 14th September
18.30
WELCOME DINNER
Sponsor / Prasar Bharati
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TUESDAY 15th September
8.00 - 9.00
REGISTRATION
9.15 - 9.30
INAUGURATION : OPENING REMARKS
Reena Mohan >> Chapter Head / IAWRT India
Rachael Nakitare >> President / IAWRT International
9.30 - 11.00
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KEY NOTE ADDRESS
Speaking Truth To Power: Connections, Disconnections And Solidarities In A Globalized World
Asma Jahangir >> Human Rights Lawyer / Pakistan
Najiba Ayubi >> Director General of DHSA / Killid Media Group / Afghanistan
Introductions / Chandita Mukherjee / IAWRT India
11.00 - 11.30
TEA
11.30 - 1300
PLENARY SESSION 1
Reporting Reality: What Women Bring To The Job And At What Price
The last three decades have seen a rising number of women professionals both in radio and television the world over. These women brought a human edge to stories on
deprivation, rights violations, natural and man-made disasters, armed conflict and terrorism and its resultant human loss and tragedy. But many of them had to pay a heavy
price along the way. From the hotspots to the airwaves, let us hear their experiences in person.
Lyse Doucet >> BBC Chief International Correspondent / Skype
Sonia Singh >> Editorial Director & President, Ethics COmmittee, NDTV / India
Eaint Khaing Oo >> Independent Radio Journalist / Myanmar
Tongam Rina >> Associate Editor, The Arunachal Times / India
Moderator / Nupur Basu / IAWRT India
1300 - 1400
LUNCH
1400 - 1530
PARALLEL SESSION 1
PARALLEL SESSION 2
In a world where terrorism, political propaganda and social conflict are
generating hate-speech challenges for media everywhere, journalists struggle
to keep their ethical values alive. Their professionalism is further compromised by an internal crisis of confidence and the growth of intolerance on
the worldwide web where social networks are used to promote intolerance,
extremism and the particular threat of online misogyny. This session will focus
on a global campaign...TURNING THE PAGE OF HATE...being developed in
Africa and the Middle East where journalists are seeking to challenge media
bias and stereotypes. We will discuss how journalism can break free from
internal and external threats and why ethical reporting is not just free expression, but a distinct form of speech constrained by the ethics of humanity and
tolerance. The key question is can journalists create ethical newsrooms that
not only deliver news you can trust but that can also be an inspiration for
responsible communications in public life?
What are the unspoken ways in which women’s perspectives are minimized
in newsrooms and media offices? How are gender stories always marginalized in the media? How does misogyny play out not only in the content of
news but also in the creation of content and workplace structure?
Turning The Page Of Hate: Free Speech Vs. Freedom Of Speech
Mansplaining, Misogyny And The Media
Sagarika Ghose >> Senior Television & Print Journalist / India
Josephine Karani >> Technical Manager, Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit / Kenya
Gerd Inger Polden >> Television Producer & Director / IAWRT Norway
Bishakha Datta >> Media Advocate & Writer / India
Moderator / Paromita Vohra / IAWRT India
Aidan White >> Director, Ethical Journalism Network
Joyce Bagala >> IAWRT Uganda
Munizae Jahangir >> Television Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker / Pakistan
Moderator / Rose Haji-Mwalimu / IAWRT Tanzania
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1530 - 1600
TEA
1600 - 1700
DEBATE
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Being A Feminist: A Feisty Debate Across Generations
A fun, fiery, feisty, provocative face-off in which women across generations speak for 5 minutes each on gains, losses, engagements, disengagement, legacy and criticism
representing feminism of their generations.
Akhila Sivadas / Elizabeth Miller / Kamla Bhasin / Pamela Philipose / Sheila Katzman / Uma Chakravarti / Iram Ghufran / Joyce Bagala / Kari Lie / Munizae Jahangir /
Nisha Susan / Pochi Tamba Nsoh
Moderator / Paromita Vohra / IAWRT India
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WEDNESDAY 16th September
8.00 - 9.00
9.00 - 11.00
BREAKFAST
PLENARY SESSION 2
Redefining Censorship In A New Media-Age
Censorship is no longer a one-way process of state and media, but has expanded to encompass corporate control of media, laws that
curtail freedom of expression, the voice of moral policing parading as false democracy, sexist internet trolling and threats of violence,
especially to women. What are the parameters of this new censorship and what are possible responses with a view to genuinely free
speech in the media?
Dr. Anja Kovacs >> Internet Rights Advocate / India
Ilang-Ilang Quijano >> Journalist & Human Rights Activist / Philippines
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena >> Human Rights Lawyer, Columnist & Author / Sri Lanka
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Moderator / Elizabeth Miller / IAWRT member from Canada
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11.00 - 11.30
TEA
1400 - 1530
PARALLEL SESSION 3
PARALLEL SESSION 4
How did the Indian rape story change the media discourse?
How have women responded to the lack of nuanced reporting on gender in the mainstream media?
What are the kinds of networks that women have created to put forward their ideas? And with internet creating a more democratic engagement with media, what has been the experience of women
venturing into cyberspace to create their own portals? 3 panelists share an experience for 20 minutes
each of creating and owning their own networks/portals.
Rape, Rhetoric & Reality: Reporting On Sexual Violence
New Networks, New Agendas
Priyanka Dubey >> Journalist / India
Rukmini S >> Journalist & Feminist / India
Kavita Krishnan >> Feminist & Activist / India
Siok Sian Pek-Dorji >> Director / Bhutan Centre for Media & Democracy / Bhutan
Tasneem Ahmar >> Director, Uks Research Centre & Uks Radio Station / Pakistan
Nisha Susan >> The Ladies Finger / India
Moderator / Vani Subramanian / IAWRT India
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1300 - 1400
LUNCH
1400 - 1530
PLENARY SESSION 3
Moderator / Samina Mishra / IAWRT India
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Gender Mainstreaming: The IAWRT Report – And Moving Onwards
The Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action pointed out the need to correct the stereotypical and often degrading depiction of women in the media and instead realistically
present women’s diversity and contribution to society. Change has been registered albeit very slow progress. Research conducted by IAWRT in eight countries where we have
chapters has revealed that gender inequalities persist on both radio and television. Men account for a majority of those who speak in the public media across countries and
continents. Additionally, there is little to no diversity among those who speak in the media in terms of sexuality, age, ethnicity, and ability. Besides the deep denial of the voice of
women, female subjects are stereotypical and over sexualized.What are best practices and examples of what has worked in this regard? What is needed to accelerate progress as
we shift focus to post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Greta Gober >> IAWRT Poland
Radha Misra >> IAWRT India
Dr. Diana Iulia Nastasia >> Romania / USA
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Moderator / Racheal Nakitare / IAWRT Kenya
1530 - 1600
TEA
1600 - 1700
SCREENING
REFLECTING HER
Women & Reproductive Health: IAWRT Long Documentary
Four countries, four stories. All four reflecting women’s contradictions,
struggles and the veil of silence that women confront when dealing with
reproductive rights.
Presenter / Bina Paul / Executive Producer on project, IAWRT India
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WORKSHOP 1
Radio Theatre As A Tool For Change
Just think, if you could expand that one special story beyond the newsroom, and there’s a voice in
your head telling you, go for it, what’s stopping you. You rush back to the community and meet those
involved in the story. Ask them, how would you like to be in a radio drama around xxx story? They
will be delighted. Tell them to bring the people affected by this story and they all will become actors
and writers of their story. Sheila has over 25 years devising radio theatre with communities in many
places around the world. She will introduce a basic workshop of devising radio theatre to explore
the depth of the news that people confront in their everyday lives. She will use action method where
people learn by doing. Participants will complete one radio drama by the end of the workshop. This
workshop is ideal for everyone working with marginalized groups, people interested in child mortality, maternal mortality, environmental issues and the list goes on.
Moderator / Sheila Katzman / IAWRT USA
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Presentation of IAWRT AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE for Best Radio & TV Documentaries
Jury Remarks
Conversations via Skype with award winners
Moderator / Gerd Inger Polden / IAWRT Norway
Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award
FOLLOWED BY GALA DINNER
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THURSDAY 17th September
8.00 - 9.00
9.00 - 11.00
BREAKFAST
PLENARY SESSION 4
TRAINING
Fewer media organizations post foreign correspondents or send journalists into conflict situations. At the same
time there continues to be a resistance to include a gender perspective in conflict reporting, and the realities for
women simply do not get reflected across the media spectrum. What can we do to change this?
All day for 25 IAWRT members
Suhasini Haidar >> Senior Editor, The Hindu / India
Aunohita Mojumdar >> Editor / HIMAL Southasia
Yasmine Ryan >> Print, Television & Multimedia Journalist / IAWRT member from Tunisia
Cai Xiping >> Professor, Journalist / IAWRT member from China (TBC)
Coordinator / Sania Farooqui / IAWRT India
Frontline And Online: Gender Perspectives In Conflict Reporting
Security Training
Conducted by / Abeer Saady / IAWRT Egypt
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Moderator / Bibiana Piene / IAWRT Norway
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11.00 - 11.30
TEA
11.30 - 1300
WORKSHOP 2
WORKSHOP 3
How to raise funds, the myths of fund-raising.
The importance of funding, the perils of single
funded organizations, the perils of being overdependant on donor agencies. Different kinds of
funding
Increasingly documentary makers and news agencies are exploring
the potential of interactive projects – stories that engage viewers in
new ways across a range of platforms. BRIB is a mobile application for
cell phones that allows users to walk through the city and create a film
made from an evolving archive of footage and stories linked to place.
What are the new challenges documentary makers encounter while producing new forms of storytelling in this new environment? What issues
do these new forms raise around ethics, collaboration and truth claims?
In this workshop we will introduce the project and offer a behind the
scenes look at evolving modes of production.
TRAINING
Security Training continues
Future Media Directions (BRIB Project)
Fundraising And Project Planning
Sohini Bhattacharya >> Vice President,
Resource Mobilization, Breakthrough / Delhi
Ananya Chakraborti >> IAWRT India
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Moderator / Grace Githaiga / IAWRT Kenya
1300 - 1400
LUNCH
1400 - 1430
PRESENTATION BY JAGORI
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Moderators / Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
& Karine van Ameringen / IAWRT members from Canada
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Alone In A Crowd: Safety In Public Spaces
Presenter / Kalpana Viswanath
How cities can be imagined in radically different ways to live up to the promise of freedom and opportunity for everyone; how the geographies of exclusion can be unpacked and
addressed; where a multiplicity of voices can co-exist and women’s rights to the city asserted. Sharing Jagori’s work on advocating for designing safer, diverse and more gender
inclusive urban spaces.
1430 - 1600
SCREENINGS
Moderator / Padmaja Shaw / Head of TV Jury
1600 - 1700
SCREENINGS
Winners of IAWRT AWARDS - TV and
WEB video 2015
Winners of IAWRT AWARDS - Radio and WEB audio 2015
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WORKSHOP 4
Moderators /
Sheila Dallas-Katzman / IAWRT USA
Frieda Werden / IAWRT member from Canada
Anupama Srinivasan and Uma Tanuku who have been the Festival Directors of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for the past three years
speak on how to organize a film festival on a low budget with the active
participation of filmmakers, film lovers, colleges, NGOs and cultural
institutions.
Shopping excursion to Dastakar Bazaar, Andheria Mode
Farewell Dinner to outgoing Board at Delhi Gymkhana Club
Security Training continues
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TRAINING
Security Training continues
Curating And Coordinating A Film Festival
Moderators / Anupama Srinivasan
& Uma Tanuku / IAWRT India
TRAINING
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IAWRT and the UN WOMEN’S
RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
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Moderator / Archana Kapoor / Head of Radio & Web Jury
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FRIDAY 18th September
8.00 - 9.00
BREAKFAST
9.00 - 11.00
IAWRT MEMBERS’ MEETING
TRAINING
>> President’s Report / 10 min
>> Treasurer’s Report / 10 min
>> Chapter Reports from 12 member countries / 5 min each
>> Proposals
All day for 25 radio and television journalists (non-IAWRT members)
Security Training
Conducted by / Abeer Saady / IAWRT Egypt
Coordinator / Sania Farooqui / IAWRT India
Moderator / Violet Gonda / IAWRT Zimbabwe & UK
11.00 - 11.30
TEA
11.30 - 1300
IAWRT MEMBERS’ MEETING
1300 - 1430
LUNCH
1430 - 1600
ELECTIONS TO IAWRT INTERNATIONAL BOARD
2015-17
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Continuing
>> Proposals
1900 - 2100
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DINNER
Please Note: This programme is subject to change. For all updates visit www.iawrt.org.
Venue Key
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Strategy (First Floor)
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Nucleus
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Garden
Secretariat is located in Board Room 2, First Floor.
Artwork / The paintings are by Sher Singh Bhil who belongs to the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh
(Central India). He learnt painting from his mother, Bhuri Bai, at the age of seven. By 15, he was drawing on
canvas and had developed his own unique colour palette.The Bhils live in the dry Western and Central parts
of India. Their close interaction with nature finds abiding expression in their art called Pithora. Painting is
like prayer for the Bhils and each dot in the vibrant and colourful patterns represents an ancestor whom they
invoke for the well-being of all forms of life.
Design / Nina Sabnani & Priyanka Chhabra / IAWRT India
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Aidan White (UK) is a journalist who has worked with leading publications including The Guardian and The Financial Times. He is Director of the Ethical Journalism Network.
Abeer Saady (Egypt) is an award-winning journalist, consultant and trainer with 24 years of work in the field of media across the Arab world. She has managed numerous projects in crisis and
war-torn regions, promoting ethical and quality journalism.
Ananya Chakraborti (India) is an award winning filmmaker, film teacher and a former print and TV journalist with over 20 years of experience. She is currently Treasurer of the IAWRT
International Board.
Anupa Shrestha (Nepal) has been associated with electronic media for the last 19 years. Presently she is working as Executive Producer in Image Television and co- coordinator in
Image FM 103.6. She is currently heading the IAWRT Nepal Chapter.
Anupama Srinivasan (India) is a freelance filmmaker based in Delhi. She has mentored several short films as part of workshops with children and young people. She is currently Secretary,
IAWRT India Chapter, and was the Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for three years (2013-15).
Anja Kovacs (India) directs the Internet Democracy Project in Delhi. Her work focuses on questions regarding freedom of expression, cyber-security and the architecture of internet governance.
Archana Kapoor (India) is an independent filmmaker, publisher and the founder of Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation (SMART), a non-profit organization. In 2010, she
launched a community radio station covering rural areas in Mewat, Haryana.
Abeer Saady (Egypt) is an award-winning journalist, consultant and trainer with 24 years of work in the field of media across the Arab world. She has managed numerous projects in crisis and
war-torn regions, promoting ethical and quality journalism.
Asma Jahangir (Pakistan) is a founding member and former Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She was elected President of Supreme Court Bar Association of
Pakistan in 2010. Recipient of several awards, she was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award, 1995, and the Right Livelihood Award, 2014.
Aunohita Mojumdar (Nepal) is the Editor of Himal Southasian, the only regional magazine of South Asia. She has spent 24 years reporting in the region out of which eight were spent as an
independent journalist in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Bina Paul (India) is an award winning film editor and executive producer for the last 20 years. She has been the Artistic Director of the International Film Festival of Kerala for the last ten years.
She is currently the Regional Director of the LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Trivandrum.
Bibiana Piene (Norway) is a political and foreign news reporter with The Norwegian News Agency (NTB) and author of the award winning book Norway in Sudan: At the Bottom of the Sun.
She is currently heading the IAWRT Norway Chapter.
Bishakha Datta (India) is a filmmaker, activist and journalist based in Mumbai. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Point of View, a non-profit organization, working in the areas of
gender, sexuality and women’s rights.
Chandita Mukherjee (India) is an award-winning filmmaker who is working collaboratively with educational organisations and institutions of learning.
Eaint Khaing Oo (Myanmar) is an independent radio journalist. In June 2008 she was arrested by the government for reporting on the Nargis cyclone.
She is proficient in radio broadcast, conflict reporting and safety journalism training.
Elizabeth Miller (Canada) is a documentary filmmaker, community media artist, and professor. She has developed documentary and community media projects with youth, senior citizens
and a wide range of human rights organizations. Currently a full-time Professor in the Communication Studies program, Concordia University, Montreal, she is also co-founder of the Concordia
Documentary Center.
Frieda Werden (Canada) co-founded and is Series Producer of Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS), a weekly radio programme by and about women around the world.
She has been on the board of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, and is a former president of IAWRT.
Gerd Inger Polden (Norway) is an award-winning TV journalist who has worked in Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for 35 years. She has worked in war and conflict zones focusing on
women’s situations, gender equality, immigration, integration and tolerance. She is currently Vice President of the IAWRT International Board.
Grace Githaiga (Kenya) is an Associate of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTA Net). She has been involved in organizing the Kenya Internet Governance Forum (IGF), East Africa IGF, Africa
IGF and the global IGF that took place in Kenya in 2011.
Greta Gober (Poland) is a gender and media researcher and activist. Together with Dr Diana Nastasia, she was the Lead Researcher in the International Media Monitoring Research carried
out by IAWRT. Currently Greta is a guest researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.
Ilang-Ilang Quijano (Philippines) is a journalist-filmmaker. Early in her career, she was sued for libel for a story that exposed how aerial spraying of pesticides in a banana plantation caused
health and environmental harm. She is the Editor of Pinoy Weekly.
Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier (Canada) is a documentary filmmaker. She is co- founder of Les glaneuses, a media company, presently developing BRIB, an interactive mobile application that
will allow users to create a film on the go, drawing on an evolving archive of footage and stories.
Iram Ghufran (India) is a Delhi-based filmmaker and artist working with moving image, sound and text. As a member of the Media Lab at Sarai CSDS between 2004 and 2011, Iram was part
of several experimental and multi-disciplinary processes and collaborations. She now leads Sandarbh, a non-profit arts initiative in rural Rajasthan.
Josephine Kerubo Karani (Kenya) is a broadcast journalist and has produced programmes in various genres, focusing on the rights and development of children, youth and women.
Presently she is the Technical Manager, Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit, Kenya. She is also the Chairperson, IAWRT Kenya Chapter.
Joyce Bagala (Uganda) is a broadcast journalist at Radio One FM 90. She is a member of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association, Human Rights Network for Journalists, Uganda Media
Women Association and is Secretary of IAWRT, Uganda Chapter.
Kalpana Viswanath (India) is a researcher who has been working on issues of gender and safer cities for women for over 20 years. She spearheaded the Safe Delhi for Women initiative led
by Jagori in partnership with UN Women and is the co-founder of Safetipin, a mobile app developed to support community and women’s safety.
Kamla Bhasin (India) is a feminist activist and gender trainer in South Asia. A social scientist by training, she has worked on issues of development, education, gender and media.
Kari Lie (Norway) is a reporter and producer with The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). She is a Board member of IAWRT Norway chapter.
Karine van Ameringen (Canada) is a documentary filmmaker. She is co-founder of Les glaneuses, a media company. Her work addresses topics as varied as ethnic tourism, identity,
intercultural encounters, exile, absence and death.
Kavita Krishnan (India) is a communist feminist activist. Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA), she is also Editor of Liberation, the monthly publication of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).
Kishali Pinto Jayawardena (Sri Lanka) is a human rights lawyer and columnist with The Sunday Times, Colombo. She has co-authored a book on media and censorship in Sri Lanka.
Lyse Doucet (Canada) is the BBC’s award winning Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter who anchors news programmes for BBC World TV and World Service Radio.
She is regularly deployed to present special news coverage from the field, interview world leaders, and report across the BBC¹s domestic and global outlets. Lyse spent 15 years as a BBC foreign
correspondent with postings in Jerusalem, Amman, Islamabad, Kabul and Abidjan.
Munizae Jahangir (Pakistan) is an award winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker. She freelances for New Delhi Television (NDTV) and also anchors and reports for Pakistan’s
leading media news network, Express TV. She writes regularly for The Express Tribune.
Najiba Ayubi (Afghanistan) is the Director General of Killid Media Group in Afghanistan. She has been a leading independent voice in Afghan media for more than two decades and was
awarded the Courage in Journalism Award for 2013 by the International Women’s Media Foundation.
Nina Sabnani (India) is an artist and storyteller who uses film, illustration and writing to tell her stories. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara and received a
master’s degree in film from Syracuse University, NY, which she pursued as a Fulbright Fellow in 1997. Her work​,​in film and illustrated books​,​seeks to bring together animation and ethnography.
After teaching for two decades at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Nina has made Mumbai her home. Currently she is Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.
Nisha Susan (India) has been Feature Editor at the current affairs magazine, Tehelka. She began the Pink Chaddi campaign and currently runs The Ladies Finger, feminist e-zine.
Nupur Basu (India) is an award winning print and television journalist and documentary filmmaker. She began her career in The Indian Express and later went onto become Senior Editor with
New Delhi Television (NDTV). Presently she writes for the media watch website, The Hoot and occasionally for The Hindu. She has filmed and reported out of hot spots like Afghanistan, Pakistan
Padmaja Shaw (India) started as a television producer in 1977 and later went on to become Executive Director of a network of five television channels. She retired as Head of the Department
of Communication and Journalism, Osmania University, Hyderabad, after teaching for 28 years. She is a Board member of IAWRT India Chapter.
Pamela Philipose (India) is an award winning journalist and author. She worked with The Times of India, Indian Express and went onto become editor-in-chief of Women’s Feature Service
(WFS), an agency mandated to highlight development issues with a gender focus in media research. She is currently senior fellow of the Indian Council of Social Research.
Paromita Vohra (India) is an award winning filmmaker and writer whose work spans many forms including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. She recently directed the
cutting-edge prime time TV series Connected Hum Tum and has written the Pakistani film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) and several documentaries. She writes weekly columns and has been
published in various anthologies and journals. She is currently working on a digital project about love, sex and desire in contemporary India. She is a Board member of IAWRT India Chapter.
Priya Goswami (India) is an award winning filmmaker. She has worked with Food and Agricultural Organisation (UN-FAO) in Cambodia and with Zee Network.
Priyanka Dubey (India) is an award winning independent journalist. Her three essays on Everyday Lives of Everyday Indian Women were recently published in a photo-book titled IndiaWomen. She covers human rights, gender, conflict and development in India.
Racheal Nakitare (Kenya) is a seasoned broadcast journalist with vast experience in programme production. She is Head, Current Affairs, at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation TV and the
Secretary of the Gender Mainstreaming Committee. She is the current President of the IAWRT International Board.
Radha Misra (India) is Professor and Head, Department of Communication Media for Children, SNDT Women’s University, Pune. She has been involved with research and training in the field
of children and media.
Reena Mohan (India) is an award winning documentary filmmaker and editor who has worked out of India, Dubai, Kathmandu and London for over three decades. She is currently Managing
Trustee, IAWRT India Chapter.
Rose Haji-Mwalimu (Tanzania) is a specialist trainer and radio producer and manager. She works in areas of gender and human rights. She is a media specialist and trainer with UNESCO.
She is currently heading IAWRT Tanzania Chapter.
Rukmini S (India) is National Data Editor with The Hindu, where she drives the paper’s data-driven reporting in print and online. Her areas of work and interest include electoral politics, sexual
crime and sexual freedoms and caste dynamics.
Sagarika Ghose (India) is an award winning journalist, news anchor and author since 1991. She was the Deputy Editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.
She is the author of two novels and is presently Consulting Editor at The Times of India.
Samina Mishra (India) is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She is currently heading the Nehru Learning Centre for Children and Youth and teaching Film Studies at Pathways World School,
Noida. She is a Board member of IAWRT India Chapter.
Sania Farooqui (India) is a freelance reporter and producer for digital and TV media.
Sara Chitambo (South Africa) has over five years experience working in Broadcasting, Production and Project Management. She is working at an NGO where she commissions health
content and undertakes project management of the Zazi women and girls campaign. She is currently heading IAWRT South Africa.
Sheila Katzman (USA) is a development communication professional and a social radio expert. She has worked on projects on Women, Peace and Security in Sierra Leone for the International Women’s Tribune Centre, been a trainer for USAID, and is former Chief of UN Public Information & UN Peace Radio and former Spokesperson of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone.
She is currently Chair of Cities for CEDAW, NYC, a member of the IAWRT International Board and also Head of the USA Chapter.
Siok Sian Pek-Dorji (Bhutan) is actively involved in fulfilling the requirement of an independent media after the formation of the first democratic government of Bhutan in 2008.
Sohini Bhattacharya (India) is the Vice President, Resource Mobilization, Breakthrough TV. She is trying to build a movement that will find violence against women and girls unacceptable.
Sonia Singh (India) is Editorial Director and President of the NDTV Ethics Committee. She has been with the company since its inception in 1992. As an award winning anchor, she has
received both critical and viewer acclaim for her work. She currently anchors the new weekly series, The NDTV Dialogues.
Suhasini Haidar (India) is an award winning journalist and the Diplomatic Editor at The Hindu. She regularly covers the Ministry of External Affairs and international events, as well as
providing editorials with perspective on current issues. Prior to this, she was the Foreign Editor at CNN-IBN and a correspondent with CNN International.
Tasneem Ahmar (Pakistan) heads the Uks Research Centre and Uks Radio Station, a media advocacy and monitoring organization in Pakistan. She received the International Media
Leadership Award in 2009 from Internews, USA.
Tongam Rina (India) is a journalist-activist from Arunachal Pradesh. She is Associate Editor, Arunachal Times, and is the only Indian journalist to have found a place in the list of ‘100
Information Heroes’ released by Reporters Without Borders.
Uma Chakravarti (India) is a feminist historian who taught for many years at a women’s college and began making films after retirement. Her documentaries revolve around women’s
histories and the silences that mainstream history forces upon them. She is also the author of several books dealing with social history and women’s history, in particular.
Uma Tanku (India) is a documentary filmmaker and line producer based in Delhi. She started as a finance professional but changed her career path in 1997. She has been Co-Director of the
IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for the past 3 years and is the Festival Director for 2016. She is also the current Treasurer, IAWRT India Chapter.
Vani Subramanian (India) is a women’s rights activist and documentary filmmaker. Her work spans a range of issues and concerns from the political economy of food to primary education,
culture, urban development and communalism and the politics of sex-selective abortions.
Violet Gonda (Zimbabwe) is a seasoned broadcast journalist and media producer working out of Zimbabwe, UK, USA and South Africa. She was part of a team that set up Zimbabwe’s
first independent radio and television station and has won the Zimbabwe Achievers Journalist of the Year award. She is currently Secretary of the IAWRT International Board.
Yasmine Ryan (New Zealand) is an independent, award-winning print, television and multimedia journalist. She worked for several years as a correspondent for Al Jazeera.
She is now based in Tunisia and covers Libya and Algeria for The Independent.
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