Sangeeta Saksena

Saksena and Saldanha were both associate professors in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St John's Medical College, Bangalore. Concerned by preventable health problems appearing in progressively younger patients, and by what they saw as a curative rather than preventive orientation in modern healthcare, they left the medical college to work full time on adolescent and child health. They found that most schools were not providing adequate education on personal safety, in part for want of funds, and from 2001 began running sessions on adolescence and human sexuality. Enfold was registered as a trust in 2002.

With Saldanha and the psychiatrist Shekhar Seshadri of NIMHANS, Saksena co-authored the 'On Track' series of workbooks on life skills and personal safety for school pupils, published by Macmillan Education India and extended in 2023 to further year groups. From 2007 the founders began training facilitators so that the curriculum could be delivered more widely.

In 2016 Saksena began the Suvidha Project, which adapts the material for children and adults with disabilities. She established postgraduate diploma and certificate programmes within the BEd course at Christ University, and since 2020 has led a project building the capacity of teachers, medical personnel and graduate and postgraduate students in gender, sexuality and personal safety education.

She has taken part in developing policy on the safety of women and children, including the Karnataka State Child Protection Policy, and has worked with the governments of Karnataka, Delhi and Telangana. Trained in restorative justice approaches in the United States and in India, she also provides training in conducting restorative circles. Enfold's own site states that she is not a founder or co-founder of any organisation other than the Enfold Proactive Health Trust.

Saksena received an ASSOCHAM Social, Diversity and Inclusion Enabler Award on 8 March 2020. Enfold as an organisation has been recognised with a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Response award from the Indian Medical Council and UNICEF (2014), a place among 50 most influential sustainability leaders at the India Sustainability Leadership Summit (2015), a United Technologies grant award for winning the Citizens for the City Neighbourhood Improvement Partnership Challenge (2015), the VIHAAN award from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore (2016), and a She Team award from the Hyderabad City Police (2017).[2][3][4][5]