Rucha Chitnis, with academic backgrounds in journalism and sociology, is the India Program Director of Women’s Earth Alliance, overseeing a program working on the connections between the human rights and food security of women farmers and environmental crises. She was previously Director of Programs and Development at One World Children’s Fund and also, in 2010, coordinated the first Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brought together technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists and academics. Rucha is also a photographer whose most recent exhibit at theThoreau Center for Sustainability, Winged Neighbors, raised awareness about avian biodiversity in San Francisco. (www.womensearthalliance.org)
