Pratima Gurung
Pratima Gurung is an academic activist and the Founder of this organisation. She’s a global disability rights leader from indigneous community. Following the completion of a one-term leadership transition, she holds the role of President of NIDWAN, providing renewed strategic leadership to strengthen the organization’s institutional direction with provincial and local structure to embed intersectional, […]
About Pratima Gurung
Pratima Gurung is an academic activist and the Founder of this organisation. She’s a global disability rights leader from indigneous community. Following the completion of a one-term leadership transition, she holds the role of President of NIDWAN, providing renewed strategic leadership to strengthen the organization’s institutional direction with provincial and local structure to embed intersectional, human rights-based work on disability inclusion, gender equality, Indigenous Peoples’ rights from the lens of indigeneity, disability and gender.
As a faculty member, she has been associated with Padmakanya Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University since 2005 and serves as an expert member of the National Direction Disability Committee under the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Government of Nepal. At the international level, she contributes as an Advisor to the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Program at McGill University, Faculty of Law (Canada), as a Global Advisor to the World Economic Forum including various institutions through governance and coordination roles within global disability and human rights networks and structures.