Ms Nalini Shekar
Executive Director, Hasiru Dala Innovations
Ashoka Fellow, Nalini has trained several hundred waste pickers, officials and policy makers on the inclusive, sustainable solid waste management. Worked with many ULBs, GPs States on policy on solid and plastic waste management.
Innovation includes demonstration of scalable solutions to waste segregation, collection, decentralised processing with citizen engagement.
Co-authored training manuals, books including Valuing Urban Waste, that maps, informal waste sector in Bengaluru and Leave no Trace documents best practices of inclusive, sustainable waste management in India, Indonesia and Brazil.
Lived in the United States for a decade and worked on violence against women and children. Was part of a group that facilitated passage of a legislation to support victims of Human trafficking in California