Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist activist, researcher, scholar and trainer whose four and a half decades of work has spanned grassroots movement building with marginalized urban and rural women, research and scholarly work, policy advocacy, grant-making, and capacity building of young women activists around the world. Above all, she is well known for building theory from practice, including on women’s empowerment, women’s movements, and feminist approaches to movement building, monitoring and evaluation, and feminist leadership. She is currently Senior Advisor, Knowledge Building, CREA, an international organization that works at the intersection of gender, sexuality and human rights, Senior Associate, Gender at Work, a global network of gender experts supporting organizations to build cultures of equality and inclusion, and Honorary Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London.
