Dr. Sujata Khandekar
Co-founder @ ATTA DEEP Academy and CORO
Dr. Sujata Khandekar is the founding director of Community of Resource Organisations (CORO), one of India’s foremost organizations for grassroots leadership and activism. Facilitating grassroots leadership by addressing issues that the community itself identifies is central to Sujata’s vision and CORO’s interventions. Sujata’s work over the past three decades has further led her to explore empowerment of grassroots women in urban and rural contexts. Her PhD thesis,Meanings of Women’s Empowerment, with seven grassroots co-researchers focuses on this as well.
The Atta Deep Academy is a knowledge centre set up by CORO India in order to acknowledge grassroots people as owners of their knowledge, and stand for their ‘right to knowledge-building’. The Academy believes that grassroots knowledge built and developed by these people themselves will be more authentic and accurate. Also, acknowledging the grassroots people as the owners of their knowledge, will give them a greater say in conversations about their development.
