Smita Bharti is the executive director/president of Sakshi, a rights-based NGO, and the programme director of The Rakshin Project by Sakshi, a youth-led movement across 40,000 colleges pan-India to prevent, prohibit and resolve child sexual abuse. She is a recognised trainer for prevention of workplace sexual harassment, and judicial education for gender equality within the region. She has substantial experience as a senior facilitator for capacity building workshops with adults, adolescents, and children, with groups across social strata ranging from the judiciary to under trials, corporate to grass-root communities. She has been published both as a poet and playwright and as a research fellow of WISCOM and K.K. Birla Foundation. An award-winning playwright, creative director, theatre and multi-media practitioner, Smita has acted in, directed, written, and translated more than thirty plays and books. A recipient of the Karmaveer Gold Chakra and Karmaveer Puraskaar for Social Change and Justice, amongst other awards, Smita Bharti is a Rotary Global Peace Fellow.