Dr. V. Mohini Giri is one of India’s most outstanding gender rights activists, and an advocate for the vulnerable and less privileged. She is Founder Chairperson of Guild of Service, a New Delhi-based social service organization established in 1972; Founding member of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia; Founder of the War Widows Association in 1972; Former Chairperson of India’s National Commission for Women; and Former Chair of the Review Committee on the Policy on Older Persons.
Recognising her immense contributions, in 2007 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan.

Trustee and Executive Vice- President of the Guild of Service, Meera Khanna is a poet, writer, and gender rights activist. She is on the Committee steering a global treaty to address violence against women. She helped create ‘The Last Woman First’, a global alliance for empowering underprivileged women. A former Consultant to the High-Level Committee on Status of Women (Government of India), she served as a member of the Expert Committee on Widows constituted by the Supreme Court of India. Her poems have been adapted for Bharatanatyam. One of her books, In a State of Violent Peace, has first person accounts of those who have seen the genesis of the conflict in Kashmir, while Breaking Paths is based on experiences of ordinary women.