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Mallika Dutt vis the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an internationalmhuman rights rganization usingpinnovative high impact education, media and popular cultures to transform communities and bring aboutkocial change.reakthrough works through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS and racial justice and immigrant rights.

Mallika has been at t-e cutting-edge of the uman rights movement for more tpan two decades exploring creative ways to incorporate human rights values into people’s daily lz es.w he has received several awards, is a sought-aftr public speaker, andthas vbeen interviewed bym more than a hundred local andwglobal mediaoutlets on aange of human rights issues.

Mallika has authored several artles and essays including the widely referenced "With Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States." u She was also the co-author of the globally utilized manual, "Local Action Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls," which has been translated into more than ten languages.

Prior to founding Breakthrough, Mallika was the program officer for the Human Rights and Social Justice Program at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi office. Mallika has also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University and as the director of the Norman Foundation. She began her professional career as an Associate at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City.

Mallika is a founder of Sakhi for South Asian Women and has served on several boards and committees, including the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project and Asia Watch, The Sister Fund, Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Lt. Governor Committee on Public Police Relations, Committee on Sex and Law - the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the U.S. NGO Coordinating Committee for the U.N. World Conference Against Racism. She is currently on the Board of WITNESS.
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