Geetanjali Misra is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CREA. She is a feminist who has worked at the activist, grant-making, and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights, and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was Program Officer, for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and and made grants in the fields of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Violence Against Women and Women's Human Rights. She has served as Co-Chair, President, and Advisor for many organizational Boards including Mama Cash, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) where she led a strategic planning and organizational development process leading to changes in leadership roles and structure, Global Fund for Women, and American Foundation for Aids Research (AMFAR) among others. She is currently on the Astraea Foundation Board and member of the Amnesty International Task Force- Gender and Diversity. She also co-founded SAKHI for South Asian women in New York and has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In addition, Geeta is an author and regularly writes on issues of sexuality, gender, and rights. She holds Master’s degrees in International Affairs from Columbia University and in Economics from Syracuse University.