Trupti Jhaveri Panchal is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her work encompasses teaching, fieldwork supervision, project co- ordination, research and training for the Post-Graduate Program in Social Work. She also leads the Resource Centre for Interventions on Violence Against Women & Special Cell for Women & Children to curate intervention models. Trupti started her career in 1991 as a Social Worker for the Special Cell for Women and Children, Commissioner Of Police Office, Mumbai. She has also worked with Pavement Communities (homeless people) on issues of education, women’s rights, and children’s rights and larger issues of human rights in reference to denotified tribes. Trupti has a PhD in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has participated in various Academic and Policy Exchange Programs has several publications to her name. In 2008, she received an award on International Women’s Day Women from TIMES OF INDIA FOUNDATION for contribution in the field of Women’s Rights.