Sunitha Krishnan
Sunitha Krishnan is an activist, author, and film producer. She founded Prajwala—Asia’s largest institution combating sex trafficking and sex crime—in 1996 at Hyderabad and has assisted in the rescue of nearly 29000 young girls and women across 12 countries and prevented nearly 16000 children from being inducted into prostitution. She was awarded the Padma Shri (2016) and was recognized as one of the 150 “Fearless Women in the World’ by Newsweek. I Am What I Am (2024) is the memoir of this relentless crusader for the rights of sex crime and trafficking victims.
