Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Managing Trustee, Director looking after the activities of the organization is a writer, author and film maker. Widely traveled Rawat has been in the human rights movement for over 15 years and was closely associated with Dr Mulk Raj Anand and Justice V.M. Tarkunde. ( Click here for VB’s profile)

Prof D.Prempati, formerly with Delhi University, he is an intellectual activist who has traveled a lot inside as well as outside India. A very effective speaker, Prempati expertise in Dalit and backward class issues.
Dr Yoginder Sikand : A very active writer, Yoginder Sikand studied in JNU Delhi before going to Leeds University and later at Leden, in the Netherlands for his post doc. He is now in the Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. An acclaimed author and authority on Sufism in India, Yoginder Sikand is a respected name among the young scholars in India. His work on shared cultural legacy in India is highly appreciated by the intellegentsia.

Namita Rawat : Namita came in the activism field in Lucknow where she started working for the rights of people with disability. She has been very sensitive on this issue and has traveled on various fact finding missions of the SDF in India.

Shah Imran Ahmed : Imran has been a journalist with print media and had covered a large number of events of the SDF in the past. He is a social activist of his own and now he is working with electronic media and give time whenever required to the organization.

Kirti Singh : Kirti Singh has done her masters in Hindi Literature from Delhi University. This is her first assignment in the social sector. She has already travelled to eastern part of Uttar-Pradesh during the land rights workshops. Presently, she is looking after documentation work of the organisation.

Administrative Support:

Dhirendra Singh Negi, looks after the accounts sections of the SDF.

Raj Kapur Rawat, lives in Ghazipur Uttar-Pradesh. A master degree holder from BHU, Rajkapur comes from scavenger community and is a coordinator for SDF’s work among the scavenger community in Uttar-Pradesh. He is running several women center in Ghazipur for empowering women from his community as well as spreading awareness regarding their human rights.

Ms Rehana Begum is attached to SDF from the very beginning. A farmer woman who changed many lives in district Saharanpur, Rehana is a very strong woman who fought against adversity all the time. Currently, she is looking after SDF’s work at Gangoh town of district Saharanpur among the Gujjar Muslim women where she teach the women, educate their children and also work about their human rights.

Subedar Jasram is an old associate of SDF. He has been fighting for the land rights of about 150 families in Kashipur, Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar district of Nainital ( Uttaranchal). SDF has been involved in the area from the last five years and is planning a land literacy programme in the region.