Shama Karkal Chief Executive Officer, Swasti Health Catalyst

Shama is a social impact professional with 25+ years of experience; her core expertise has been working on community systems strengthening with a focus on marginalized communities (women in sex work, LGBTQAI, urban and rural poor, factory workers), where people and their organisations work with a range of providers (health, justice, finances, etc) to achieve well-being, individually and collectively.

She has been with Swasti and the Catalyst Group, a social enterprise platform, since 2006. She works with various collaboratives towards solving wicked problems.