SHREYA SEN| 26.02.

1990
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
E-mail I.D: sen.shreya90@gmail.com
Phone Number: 86557-92560
Temporary AddressFlat No. 715, Palms 2, Royal Palms, Aaray Colony, Mumbai- 400065,
Maharashtra, India
Permanent Address: T4, Flat 12/2, Ruchira Residency, 369 Purbachal Kalitala Road, Kolkata
700 078, West Bengal, India.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
NAME OF INSTITUTE

DEGREE RECEIVED

Tata Institute of Social

Sciences, Mumbai,
Maharashtra (2011-2013)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
West Bengal (2008-2011)
Kendriya Vidyalaya,
Ballugunje, Kolkata, West
Bengal (2007-2008)

M.A Womens Studies

Loreto Day School, Eliot

Road, Kolkata, West Bengal
(2000-2006)

ICSE Class 10 (English,

Hindi, Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, Mathematics,
History, Geography)

GPA/PERCENTAGE
OBTAINED
8.3 (silver medalist)

B.A (Hons.) English

Literature

63.56%
84%

CBSE Class 12 (Accountancy,

Mathematics, Economics,
English, Business Studies)
86%

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
TOPIC

PUBLISHED BY
Psychology, Feminism and Sadomasochism (June
2012) in Feminist Science Studies: Student
Working Paper Series No. 2

Advanced Centre for Womens

Studies, School of Development
Studies, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

RESEARCH WORK (done in partial fulfillment of the M.A Degree in Womens Studies):
TOPIC
ISSUES COVERED
Submissions
and
Subversions:
Exploring
questions of
choice and
agency within
sex work

looked at the comparative context in the forms of violence faced by

brothel based sex workers and floating sex workers
studied the network of relationships
explored the legal debates around sex work
to talk about the sex workers encounters and experiences with the
law and with the organizations
revisited the survivor/victim debate

WORK EXPERIENCE:
DESIGNATION
Senior Research
Associate, Centre for
Enquiry into Health and
Allied Themes (January
2015- Present)

Research and Resource

Development Coordinator, Arpan (20132015)

Freelance writer and

blogger (2009- 2013)

WORK DONE
Researching into a project aimed at integrating a gender
sensitive perspective in medical curriculum across medical
schools in Maharashtra with a special focus on issues of
abortion, sex selection, domestic and sexual violence. My work
involves building content for these modules, expanding upon
the projects online presence, coordinating with relevant
stakeholders, organizing meetings, workshops and seminars
for medical educators and researching on the impact of the
project on students and medical educators.
Conducting and assisting with the implementation of research
projects for the organization working to prevent child sexual
abuse, developing content in different languages for their
flagship project, the Personal Safety Education programme,
expanding upon the organizations online outreach, developing
content for awareness building and advocacy material around
sexuality
Blogger on issues of gender and sexualities for various
blogs such as Nirmukta, Ultraviolet, Suite101, Skirt.com,
Chillibreeze and Shetizenjournalist.

VOLUNTEER HISTORY:
DESIGNATION
WORK DONE
Founded an online forum aimed at building accountability
Founder, Ethical
mechanisms for organizations working within the social services
Activism (July
sector and creating a supportive, safe space for employees, activists
2015-Present)
and volunteers working towards social development
Co-founded an intersectional feminist collective that aims towards
Co-Founder,
gender sensitization and consciousness raising around various social
Zehen (2013issues through film screenings, plays, protest rallies, online and
present)
offline campaigns, workshops and study circles.
Was a member of the organizing team that initiated this global
Core Committee
movement in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal. Engaged in the
Member, Slut
sustained efforts of the Movement to disseminate knowledge and
information related to gender based violence, victim blaming and
Walk Kolkata
appropriate legal and social responses to sexual violence through
(2012-2013)
online and offline study groups.
Managing content and providing administrative support for this
Co-Manager,
feminist initiative that works through the social media sites,
Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress. Currently working towards
Being Feminist
publishing a book on Motherhood in collaboration with The
(2012- Present)
Forgotten Writers Workshop, Egypt.
Conducted interviews with vulnerable groups as a part of a research
Volunteer,
project evaluating Hepatitis B awareness programmes conducted in
Samarth (2013)

Mumbai.

Intern, Aditi
(2012)
Volunteer, M
Ward East
Project, TISS
(2012)
Co-founder/editor,
The Survivor
Chronicles (20102012)
Volunteer, New
Light (2008-2011)
Volunteer,
SAATHII (20082011)

Participated in the various operations of the community based

organization working with sex workers as a part of the field work
placement programme done in partial fulfillment of the M.A Degree
in TISS.
Volunteered as a researcher for the pilot project initiated by the
Tata Institute of Social Sciences in the under developed area of M
Ward, Mumbai
Key resource person for publicity and general administration as
well as selection of submitted material for this independent online
magazine focussed on trauma survival and the art that accompanies
the process
Worked with the children of sex workers in the red light area of
Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal as a teacher and mentor.
Editor and Proof reader for awareness pamphlets related to the
organizations ongoing
campaigns (including print and
audio-visual material) for proactive HIV/AIDS sensitization