MEET THE TEAM !

CORE TEAM

ANUHYA KORRAPATI

Founder

Anuhya Korrapati is Doctoral Scholar with Junior Research Fellowship at Christ University, Bengaluru. She is the joint secretary at IHEPA and is a youth advisory board member at IAPMD.

The Menstrual-Mental Health Movement is a new wave of menstrual activism that aims to tackle the twin stigma of menstruation and mental health while consciously looking through the lens of the gender spectrum. BeyondBlood was founded to elevate the medical discourse and social discussion beyond the exaggerated need for sanitary napkins to address the erasure of menstrual experiences and the disregard for holistic wellbeing.

SHRADDHA MADHAVAN

Project Development Coordinator

BeyondBlood attempts to challenge the stigma that is associated with menstruation and provide a better understanding of its relationship with an all-inclusive approach to one’s health and well-being, further aspiring to include non-menstruators into this Menstrual-Mental Health Movement.

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SIRI SINCHANA

Project Lead - Menstruation and Media
Translation Support Volunteer - Kannada

Siri is a graduate of international business economics and has worked as a journalist. Her interests lie in music, reading and learning new languages. Through the menstruation and media project, she hopes to bring about a change in social discourse by discussing the representation and lack thereof of menstruation in media today. It is important to step outside the confines of already established cultural and linguistic ideologies to achieve progress.

DIKSHA DAWAR

Team Lead - Menstruation at Workplace

Diksha holds her MSc in Business Psychology. Being an advocate of mental health in workplace, her aim is to aid people build nurturing workplace cultures. Menstruation affects a person physically and mentally both; and is often overlooked in a workplace in terms of infrastructure and policies. With Beyond Blood, this screaming need for acknowledgement and adjustments to cater to menstruating workforce will be addressed.

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PMDD ADVOCACY PROGRAM - FELLOWS

GEETANJALI GURLHOSUR

Research

Geetanjali is a freelance journalist and writer. She is currently working toward becoming a social researcher and documentary filmmaker. Following a degree in Media Studies, she pursued a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati. Earlier this year, she completed her Master's thesis titled 'Choice, Agency and Resistance: Lives of Female Sex Workers of Budhwar Peth'. Also an activist, Geetanjali enjoys reading books, writing poetry and prose, and having conversations on peace, gender, sexuality and social dialectics. On better days of the month, she is always up for dancing or learning a new sport.

NAMRATA MENON

Content Creator

Namrata is a videographer/editor based out of Mumbai. She believe that bold vulnerability is what gets her going and a huge part of that idea is being honest about her PMDD. She was diagnosed with PMDD three years ago and has been working on managing it since then. She can usually be found binge watching and hoarding on stationery and history books.

SONAL JAIN

Advocacy Campaign Strategy

Sonal Jain is a menstrual health advocate and lives with PCOS & PMDD. She currently works in the capacity of a co-founder at Boondh, a social enterprise working in menstrual health along the verticals of literacy, advocacy, activism and sustainable products. Their work of building menstrual life skills among menstruators across socio-cultural strata is informed by an intersectional feminist, culturally sensitive, multi-stakeholder and informed choice approach) and has been a MHH (Menstrual Health & Hygiene) facilitator since 2013. Her previous work includes facilitating teams for World Merit UK in the space of environment sustainability and education. She is a Laureate Global Fellow 2018, a World Merit fellow 2015, and a recipient of Microsoft Youthspark Challenge for Change -Global Award 2015, among other prestigious international fellowships. Her work on SDG 12 has been presented at the UN in New York City in 2016. Her everyday activities include empowering conversations and living mindfully.

INTERNS

NEHA GUPTA

Research Intern - Menstruation and Mental Health

Neha is currently a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University. She aims to pursue a career in research so as to combine the nascent issues of Mental Health with policymaking.

NIRAJANA SINHA

Menstruation At Workplace

Nirajana Sinha is a final year undergraduate student of Political Science in Presidency University, Kolkata. She is extremely interested and passionate about gender studies and gender politics. Her areas of interest are the studies of politics governing the public/private sphere divide and the power dynamics involved, along with studying and analyzing the intricacies of exploitation of women's labour and abuse.
As a rape survivor, she works actively in creating and promoting safe space for women and tries fighting sexual harassment and abuse in both public and private spheres, with whatever little resources available to her. She is also extremely interested in grassroot level activism.
She has previously written papers on the historiography of Partition of India using a gendered and post-colonial lens along with her peers and on tourism, religion and other global phenomenons, through a feminist perspective.
Her other areas of interest include singing, painting, playing badminton and chess and intently watching sunsets.

ISHANI RAY

Menstruation and Media

Ishani Ray is a graduate in Political Science from Presidency University, Kolkata, Ishani Ray is currently pursuing her Master's in Women's Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. An aspiring screenwriter, Ishani spends her time writing for academics, scripts, and leisure. An ardent movie buff and reader, she loves the interplay of gender and culture in her interests and daily life. Her experience in media and qualitative market research has driven her further to analyse the role and power of cultural constructs. On ideal days, you can find her daydreaming about sunsets, or escaping into her favourite animes, pointing to her fairly evident love for drama- otherwise seen through her stage or radio plays.