Gayatri Buragohain

Founder

Founder of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT)

Gayatri Buragohain is the founder of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, education and human rights from New Delhi.

Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT)

Feminist Approach to Technology, known as FAT, works so that young women and girls from marginalised communities can claim technology, leadership and their rights. Based in Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, it runs a Young Women's Leadership programme, a Girls in STEM programme and a collectivisation initiative across four Indian states, and produces films made by girls, radio shows and podcasts, and resources including a disability and sexuality toolkit.

Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT) reports the following, on its own site:

45 young women joined the bridge course of FAT's Level 3 Collectivisation Initiative in 2021-22, with 38 progressing to the L3 programme

Organisations: 1
Based in: New Delhi
Founded: —
Press: 1

References

[1] “Since its inception, the organization has been guided by a fundamental question posed by our founder, Gayatri: What would it take for girls and young women from marginalized communities not only to access technology, but to shape it, question it, and lead through it?” — Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT). Source

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