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.
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.
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.
RADHIKA RASTOGI
Research Intern - Menstruation and Mental Health
Radhika has completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Christ University. Her interests lie in understanding the intricacies surrounding women's mental health, health-related behaviour, positive psychology and well being. An aspiring psychologist, Radhika aims to make mental health awareness and health care more accessible across all communities.
SOUMILI ROY
Menstruation and Mental Health
Soumili is currently an undergraduate Social Sciences student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Her areas of interests include mental health, gender and sexuality, and poverty and social inequality, which she believes can be examined through an intersectional lens.
RIDDHI DARYANANI
Menstruation and Mental Health
Riddhi has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. Her research interests span across health, clinical, and positive psychology, anchored by a passion for women's mental health and wellbeing. She hopes to contribute to the literature on women's healthcare experiences, especially in India.
TRANSLATION SUPPORT VOLUNTEERS
Our Volunteers translate PMDD Patient Resources from English to various regional languages in India. This project is in collaboration with IAPMD
VARUN GOPALAKRISHNAN
TAMIL
KATYAYNI SHARMA
HINDI
INDUPRIYA TULLIMILLI
TELUGU
SIMRAN KAUR
ODIA
SONALI PRIYADARSINI
PUNJABI
NILAY SHRIMALI
GUJARATI
RAGESH
MALAYALAM
MEEMANSA SINGH
BENGALI
GEET SANGEET KHODE
MARATHI