Krishanti Dharmaraj is a human rights advocate and a practitioner dedicated to realizing safety, equity, and wellbeing within communities, institutions, and the wider world. She works at the intersection of rights, leadership, and identity to achieve her purpose. She has three decades of experience advocating to advance women's human rights at local, national, regional and global levels. Ms. Dharmaraj is the founder and principal of the Dignity IndeX, a rights-based methodology and process to ensure sustainable inclusion, equity, and safety in communities and institutions. She conducts strategy sessions, training and workshops and lectures and keynotes in the US and internationally. She is faculty at Glasgow Caledonian New York College's newly launched M.S. program in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Leadership. Most recently, Ms. Dharmaraj was the executive director of center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University where she set strategy and developed a 10-year trajectory to advance women's rights at the intersection of human rights, labor and safety, through the eradication of gender-based discrimination and violence. She co-created the Journalism initiative on gender-based violence (JiG) convening over 100+ journalists from 38 countries; restructured the Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR) to ensure solidarity of transnational leadership of feminist from the global south and from marginalized communities of the global north to influence global policy; established partnerships with labor unions within the US and globally to ensure collaborations among feminist organizations and labor to address violence and harassment in the world of work and the impact of Covid-19 on women's paid and unpaid labor; and established the US Program. As the founding executive director of Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human rights, Ms. Dharmaraj co-founded the US Human Rights Network to ensure US government was held accountable to human rights standards within US borders; led a delegations of women activists to Durban, South Africa for the UN World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related intolerance to ensure that discrimination and violence at the intersection of race, ethnicity and gender were addressed by governments and particularly by the US; created a first Young Women's Rights and Leadership program in the country; and with her leadership, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to pass legislation implementing an international human rights treaty. As a result of passing CEDAW in San Francisco, the city implemented a gender analysis in departments that impacted employment, programming and service delivery, and resource allocation. Currently, this public policy strategy is being implemented in cities across the United States. Ms. Dharmaraj has received numerous awards for her cutting-edge work and has held leadership positions at Amnesty International USA, Thousand Currents, Horizons Foundation and Center for Asian Pacific Women. She holds an MBA from Haas School of Business at University of California, at Berkeley. Currently Ms. Dharmaraj is a Trustee of THIRST (The International Roundtable for Sustainable Tea), Executive Committee member of Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR) and represents the civil society global reference group at the Governing Board of the Spotlight Initiative, a (500 million Euro) partnership fund of European Union and the United Nations to end violence against women. Twitter @krishanti5050