Asha Kowtal is an activist and expert in the field of Dalit women’s rights.

She is currently the General Secretary of the Dalit Women’s Rights movement in India, called the All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM), which is part of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights.

She is also a convenor and part of the steering committee of WinG-India, a network advancing leadership of women from the north-eastern part of India, and involving Dalit and tribal communities in governance at all levels with the aim of challenging exploitative structures and enabling a society with gender equality.

Manju Singh, aged 33 years, resident of Mohonpur village of Jamalpur block, is an Adivasi social activist associated with Udayani Social Action Forum.

Ever since, she has been involved in Right To Food movement and has been working for the people belonging to her community. She has three children including two daughters and one son, she is educating her children!

For their daily living, Manju Singh and her husband work in the agricultural field as labourer! She actively takes part in the protests and rallies to fight for the rights of the Adivasis through her SHG, Surjodipto.

Santoshi Tudu, aged 40 years, resident of Mohonpur village of Jamalpur block in West Bengal, is a Self Help Group member of Surjodipto SHG.

Santoshi has been associated with Udayani Social Action Forum and has been evolved in the Right to Food movement. She has one daughter working in a private company and a son who is studying in school.

Santoshi and her husband are agricultural labourers but takes active part in all the rallies and protest movements for the Rights that Udayani coordinats. Santoshi has always stood up for the rights of people of her community and hopes to do the same in the future for the development of her village.

Corinne Kumar is a philosopher, poet, human rights theoretician and activist. She helped to establish and promote the World Courts of Women, and serves as International Coordinator. The aim is to hold their governments accountable under both international law and human ethics for crimes against women and crimes of war.

She is the Co-Founder of Vimochana Forum for Women’s Rights, in Bangalore, working on issues such as domestic violence, dowry-related deaths, and workplace sexual harassment

Rajagopal P. V., a Gandhian activist, is former Vice Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, and the president and founding member of Ekta Parishad, that with its mobilization of tribal peoples, women and youth as well as its advocacy of Land Reform, is one of the most successful nonviolent alternatives.

In 2014, he received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.

In 2014 he was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

They are currently preparing the Jai Jagat International March in 2020 which will consist of a walking march from India to the UN headquarters in Geneva, including the mobilization of one million people in India and support actions around the world.

Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.

Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School.

His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries, Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.

Jean Drèze is a Belgian-born Indian development economist and activist. His work in India has been studying several developmental issues like hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the NREGA.

He had conceptualized and drafted the first version of the NREGA. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, Nicholas Stern, with whom he has written on policy reform when market prices are distorted, and Nobel laureate in economics Angus Deaton.

He is an honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Ranchi University.

Rejitha is a woman activist involving in the women epowerment activities in the state. She is part of Sakhi Women's Resource Centre for the last 17 years.

Sakhi is a feminist organisation based in Trivandrum, Kerala, with the aim of a Gender Just Society.

Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author. Shiva has authored more than twenty books.

She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.

She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honor known as an ``Alternative Nobel Prize``.