ASHOKA Fellow

Sikha Roy, an Ashoka Fellow, and a dedicated social worker with the passion for bringing discernible changes in lives of women and girls in terms of improved income, enhanced value in family and society and finally reduction of violence against women.

Sikha has an experience of more than two decades to work across the nooks and corners of women and girls’ empowerment. During her initial years in the field of social work, she worked with a few frontline agencies in India.

Sikha is an expert in the field of ‘Sustainable Livelihoods for Women’ and she has an immense power of reaching out to the marginalised and excluded section of society with practicable solution for community development through empowerment of women and girls.