Our Team
Our Team
Samarthyam has in-house professional team with more than 27 years of experience, and have undertaken national and international projects with implementation results. The team includes access auditors, architect, engineer, planner (urban, physical & transport), road scientist and landscape architects who conduct audits/ assessments of pedestrian environment, buildings, heritage sites, transport infrastructure, vehicles, etc.
Samarthyam’s team as change agents is disseminating Accessibility Awareness and Implementation Strategies through a novel model, which primarily focuses on promoting enabling environment.
Executive Committee
Anjlee Agarwal
Chairwoman & Executive Director
30 years of experience as Universal Accessibility Specialist, Researcher and Author. She is passionate about age, gender and disabled friendly spaces where mobility is without barriers and ensure “Leave No One Behind”.
Debabrata Chakravarti
Vice Chairman & Project Director
20 years of experience as Universal Design Expert. He is National Resource Person, Universal Accessibility Specialist and is subject expert on making built environment accessible for all.
Deepshikha Gupta
Director, Inclusive Education
20 years of work experience in Inclusive Education. She is advocating and promoting universal accessibility in educational institutions, with focus on inclusion and empowerment of girls with disabilities.
Advisors
Nidhi Madan
Architect & Landscape Architect
15 years of experience as Access Auditor, Architect & Landscape Architect. Creating a barrier-free, universally-accessible built and transport environment is her passion and making the World Accessible her goal.
Dr. Neelima Chakrabarty
Senior Scientist, Environmental & Traffic Psychology & Right of Way
25 years of experience on road safety and walkability audits and actively engaged in Road Safety Audits with Samarthyam.
Patrons
Dr. Gitam Tiwari
TRIPP Chair Professor Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Delhi
Has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries.
Dr. Victor Pineda
United States Access Board
Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda is Chair of a committee developing regulations on passenger vehicles in the United States Access Board.