Executive Director
Sohini is a social entrepreneur, development practitioner, author, and advocate for social inclusion and diversity. Her work consistently explores the question of why othering and dehumanization persist in an increasingly interconnected world, and how communities can organize to resist them in everyday life.
Over the past decade, Sohini’s journey has taken her from the familiar streets of Kolkata to the tribal heartlands on the fringes of West Bengal, the conflict-affected districts of Jammu and Kashmir, the politically distressed yet outwardly calm neighbourhoods of Leh and Kargil, and the serene banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, where she has worked alongside marginalized communities often rendered invisible despite the centrality of faith and piety in the region. Her deep engagement with these geographies and communities led her to co-author an international, grant-supported book in 2024 that curates the journeys of 28 women from across the Indian subcontinent, foregrounding their lived experiences of resilience and agency.
Sohini regularly speaks on global platforms, including sessions associated with the World Bank Fragility Forum and the World Bank Youth Summit, as well as at UN Commission on the Status of Women side events and the Global Summit of Women, and is an active contributor to interfaith and civil society networks in India and beyond. She views advocacy as central to her practice, using dialogue, storytelling, and network-building to mobilize solutions and resources for a more connected, inclusive world.
A 2019 Fellow of the KAICIID International Fellows Programme, Sohini has received intensive training in interreligious dialogue, conflict transformation, and dialogue facilitation, and is also an alumna of the EU-funded Global Exchange on Religion in Society programme, which convenes practitioners working at the intersections of faith, diversity, and social inclusion. These experiences have strengthened her ability to design and lead community initiatives that advance social inclusion, social justice, and faith-informed reconciliation in fragile and polarized contexts.
As the founding visionary and Managing Director of the Centre for Inclusive Futures, Sohini is building a home-grown ecosystem for social inclusion that connects global expertise with local realities. Through the think tank, she aims to bring resources, networks, mentorship, and research to inform policy and practice, strengthen advocacy, and support sustained capacity-building in this often overlooked yet urgent area of social policy.
