Anita Gurumurthy (Associate) is a founding member and currently co-director of IT for Change (www.ITforChange.net), an NGO in India. Anita's core interests have included research and policy advocacy on development and social change, with specific focus on areas such as gender, public health, globalization, and the information society. She is part of the governing structure of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID). Her recent book, published by Elsevier, which she co-edited with colleagues at IT for Change is titled "Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issues".

Aruna Rao (Director and co-founder) is a gender and institutional change expert with over 25 years' experience of addressing gender issues in a variety of development organizations, primarily in Asia. In addition to serving on the boards of CIVICUS and AWID, she has consulted widely with UN organizations, academic institutions, and development NGOs on gender and development and organizational change issues and written extensively on gender and institutional change.

Carol Itskowitz (Finance Manager) owner of Ocean Bookkeeping, recently partnering with Beyond the Bottom Line, has been providing full-charge bookkeeping and staff accounting services for over 25 years. Her experience includes working with a large cross section of industries, professional service firms and non profit organizations. Carol has spent many years traveling the NY/NJ Metropolitan area working with and training clients on a multitude of issues in a variety of situations. She brings to the organization an extensive knowledge base of bookkeeping and accounting procedures, rules and design programs to help further the Gender at Work goals.

David Kelleher (Senior Associate) is a co-founder of Gender at Work. He has been an independent organizational consultant for more than three decades working with NGOs, governments and UN agencies. He is the Afghanistan Coordinator for Amnesty International (Canada) and an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University. He has co-authored a number of books and articles on organizations and on gender equality.

Jessie Doll (Program Assistant) is currently pursuing her Master's degree in International Development at the Elliott School at George Washington University. Her focus is on the intersection between economics and the environment and how both can be used to facilitate development. She has a BA in Spanish from Wake Forest University and has had the privilege of spending time studying and working in various countries in Latin America. She provides program assistance and support for Gender at Work.

Kalyani Menon-Sen (Associate) is a feminist activist, researcher and trainer who works with JAGORI, a women's resource centre in Delhi, India. She has over 25 years of experience in working with a range of organizations - from grassroots women's groups to NGOs, development agencies and government programs - to build organizational capacities to advance women's rights. Most recently, she has been working with UNDP in developing and implementing an organization-wide learning strategy for gender mainstreaming.

Michel Friedman (Associate) has worked as a feminist and social development activist for the past 25 years in a wide range of sectors including violence against women, rural, urban and environmental development, land reform, organizational change, and capacity building of women writers.

Praneeta Sukanya Kapur (Associate) has been working in the field of development since she finished her Masters Degree in Social Work in 2005. She started by working at the grassroots-level, going on to work with Oxfam and most recently with The Hunger Project, an organization that works with women elected to village ‘Panchayats’ (Councils). Issues she has engaged with in the course of her work include women’s leadership, capacity building, violence against women and savings & credit, amongst others. She has a mix of program and management skills, both areas in which she has had equal experience.

Rieky Stuart (Senior Associate) is a consultant in international development. She has worked in this field since the late 1960s. She has worked and lived in Africa and Asia and Canada as a teacher, development programmer, consultant and manager. She was Executive Director of Oxfam Canada from 1999 to 2005. She previously served as Deputy Director for the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, and also taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady International Institute. She is currently a board member of CIVICUS.

Tania Principe (Executive Director) holds a a Master of Arts in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto and a BSc in Natural Resource Management and International Development. She has worked extensively in international women's human rights and locally in food and social justice work. She has spent considerable time living and working abroad namely in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Senegal. In the past she has worked with the AWID in various capacities and most recently she worked in a senior management capacity with one of Toronto's largest Food Banks and Food Access agencies. Her other full time job is parenting her one year old son.