She worked at the Special Cell for Women in Distress, a TISS Field Action project in collaboration with the Dept of Police, Mumbai, and then till 1999, in three grass roots programmes for children on the street in Mumbai & Bangalore (Snehasadan, REDS, & Chaithanya). She was also a Core team member, Trainer & Research Guide for the Street Educator’s Training Prog through Action Research, (SETPAR), a project initiated first by Fr. George Kollashany sdb and subsequently in partnership with the Institute of Devt Research Amsterdam (InDRA), Amsterdam Univ. as part of an Intl programme on Urban Poverty, (1994 – 1998). She joined CCL NLSIU in 1999 and has been the Programme Co-ordinator on Juvenile Justice since June 2002. She has made an outstanding contribution to Child Rights in general and Juvenile Justice in particular, especially through her efforts to strengthen inter-disciplinary work as well as integration between Field action, Research and Teaching. She has undertaken extensive research, published articles, designed and conducted Capacity Building Programmes on JJ for functionaries, Child Welfare Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards at the State & Regional level. Recommendations for Law & Rule reform were also submitted to the Government of India and Government of Karnataka on Juvenile Justice as well as the Children’s Commission. She has played a nodal role in envisioning innovative educational programmes at NLSIU such as the two PG Diploma Courses in Child Rights in 2008, one of which envisages an institutional partnership with TISS, Mumbai. She is a member of various statutory and other bodies, and has been nominated as a representative of NLSIU to the Karnataka State Legal Service Authority Sub Committee on Child Rights in 2008.

Message: ‘I believe that this national network is of international importance. It has the potential to create platforms for academicians, practitioners, state and civil society actors in the area of child rights, and perhaps even children themselves, to join heads, hearts and hands in order to make a concrete difference to children’s lives, while also collectively sharing and constructing knowledge that could positively impact the discourse on children. On behalf of the Centre for Child and the Law, NLSIU, I express our whole hearted support for this initiative’