Ayushmita Samal
Country: India
Advocacy areas: SRHR, Disability Feminist Movement Building
Background:
Ayushmita is a queer disabled mixed methods researcher and evaluator based in India, specialising in feminist, decolonial and participatory methods. She is a sexuality educator and DEI and Human Rights trainer, with expertise on gender and disability issues. Her key areas of work have been menstrual health, hygiene, and rights, gender and sexuality based violence, maternal, child and neonatal health, etc.
She has also worked on advocacy projects demanding universal access to the HPV vaccine, and her current work is towards ensuring the human rights of women with disabilities, including but not limited to access to disability certificates, reservations, social protections, etc.