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Aparajita Gogoi

Executive DirectorCentre for Catalyzing Change

Biography

Dr. Aparajita Gogoi serves as the Executive Director of an Indian NGO called Centre for Catalyzing Change, (C3), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating lasting systems change at the grassroots, working with adolescent girls and women, by leveraging existing platforms to provide sustainable solutions.

Dr Gogoi is a political scientist, an advocate and crusader for realizing the rights of women and girls. She is pivotal to conceptualizing and implementing Center for Catalyzing Change’s scaled up and system change programs.Under Dr. Gogoi’s leadership, C3 has broken the myth that NGO led programs cannot be implemented at scale or be easily replicable.

She holds a PhD (International Politics), from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Dr Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world by The Guardian of UK in 2011. India Today, India’s premier magazine, featured her as an Unsung Hero in the Anniversary Issue in December 2019.