Jennifer Liang, a founding trustee, has a post graduate degree in social work from TISS and has specialized in social research methods. She has worked directly on health and women’s issues in Assam and has been helping a number of NGOs in the northeast. A founder trustee, she also works part-time for Ashoka Innovators for the Public in selecting potential Ashoka fellows.

Sunil Kaul , a founding trustee, is a public health activist who worked as a medical doctor in the army for some years, and then left his job to work for primary health care in rural areas of Rajasthan and Assam. Also a founding trustee, he is interested in community health especially with respect to malaria and T.B.

V K Madhavan, is currently the Executive Director of CHIRAG, a NGO working in Himalayan state of Uttaranchal. He has been the Secretary of Urmul Setu, a rural NGO in Rajasthan for many years and has also worked with well known International NGOs like ActionAid and The Hunger Project.

Our founding trustees also include Shri Rabindranath Upadhyay, a known Sarvodaya worker who has since 1962, worked in Nalbari district of Assam in rural upliftment through Khadi and village industries. He has a vast experience and is associated with a number of organisations at the regional and national levels. Shri R N Upadhyay also won the presitigious Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Social work for 2003.

Jyoti Basumatary is a lecturer at Bongaigaon College and teaches Bodo language. He is also the editor of a bimonthly newsletter Agan Se, which means "first step."