We are excited to host a tailored 3-day workshop this month, in collaboration with aikyam fellows and Awaaz Leadership Labs (ALL), an initiative dedicated to enabling young lawyers and law students to create impactful change in the justice sector. This workshop brings together passionate individuals working on various justice-driven initiatives, fostering an environment of sharing, collaboration, and learning.
aikyam space & Awaaz worked closely to design this 3 day workshop to equip participants with frameworks, tools, networks necessary to take their important and urgent work to the next level. Collectively we will delve into different aspects of their work from theory of change, storytelling, leveraging tech tools and more.
Meet the Participants
This workshop gathers a diverse group of changemakers who are actively working to bridge gaps in justice, climate consciousness, disability rights, and legal innovation:
- Gatha G. Namboothiri – A graduate of NUJS, Gatha has extensive experience working with the Centre for Social Justice across multiple states. She specialises in grassroots capacity-building, training paralegals, and strengthening legal aid systems for marginalized communities. She is currently part of the Pahal team at ALL.
- Hasan Al Banna – Founder of the Association for Parivartan of Nation (APNA), a non-profit committed to legal empowerment for marginalized communities. With an LLM in Law and Globalisation from the University of Bristol, Hasan focuses on community-led advocacy and bridging systemic gaps through legal interventions particularly through Right to Education for marginalised populations in Jharkhand.
- Himani Baid – A final-year law student at Amity University Chhattisgarh, Himani serves as the project coordinator at Law Firm Ready and operations support at Awaaz Leadership Labs. She is passionate about legal design and alternative dispute resolution.
- Ishita – A law student at OP Jindal Global Law School with a strong passion for climate justice and feminist advocacy. Having worked with organisations like Greenpeace and Youth for Climate India, they are currently building Varta Varan, an initiative to create a climate-conscious legal community.
- Sushanth Gajula – A visually-challenged law graduate dedicated to fostering an inclusive society. Through his initiative, Samavesh, he is working to make legal education accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities (PWD).
- Rohit Sharma – Co-founder of Awaaz Leadership Labs and Law Firm Ready, Rohit is a law graduate from NUJS, Kolkata. He has mentored over 2,000 law students and is a researcher at Harvard University’s Lakshmi Mittal South Asian Institute, studying the history of punishment in India. His work champions democratizing socio-legal discourse in regional languages.
- Tammanna – A writer and researcher engaged with Digital Futures Lab and Agami, working on narrative-building projects at the intersection of tech, climate, law, and justice. Their initiative, Temp.mag partners with Soch of Awaaz Leadership Labs to merges ethnographic research methodologies, alternative pedagogies with creative storytelling. Under this programme, Fellows are invited to choose a physical site for research in and around their neighborhood and equipped with tools and skills to investigate and document their surroundings;
Holding space for change makers
This workshop reflects aikyam space’s purpose of holding space for change makers in their incredible journey. We do this by carefully co-creating workshop plans, creating dedicated spaces for discussions, ideation, and solution-building. also providing with minimalist but a comfortable stay and food. By doing the above we aspire to make psychologically safe spaces, resources, conversations more accessible to young change makers.
Read about how the workshop went below:
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