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Ardra Manasi is a development practitioner based in New York City, with expertise in policy advocacy around gender and labor. Her other areas of research interests include migration and technology & society. Currently, she is the Senior Program Coordinator for Gender and Labor at Global Labor Justice (GLJ). Since 2019, her work has focused on policy advocacy and inclusive partnership engagement focused on ILO Convention 190 (C190), the first international treaty to address violence and harassment in the world of work. To this end, she has initiated partnerships and led advocacy with multi-stakeholders including the United Nations (UN), governments, philanthropy, civil society organizations, trade unions, and the private sector in making workplaces safer for women workers from formal and informal sectors. Currently, she leads the C190 Arc Task Force, a transnational group of civil society organizations coordinated by Global Labor Justice (GLJ). Prior to her stint at GLJ, she worked with the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) and Global 16 Days Campaign at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), both housed at Rutgers University. She is currently affiliated with the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD) in India as a Research Fellow. In 2017, she served as a Policy Consultant with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), where her work focused on migration and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has also helped develop digital and social media strategies for Plan International’s UN Liaison Office and UN Women, through partnerships with The New School University in New York.Ardra holds a Master of Arts (MA) in International Affairs from The New School, New York City and a Master of Arts (MA) in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Her writings on global development have appeared in The World Bank Blogs, Global Observatory, Scroll.in, Agenda for International Development (A-id), The News Minute, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Her co-authored papers and chapters have appeared in peer-reviewed books and journals such as ‘Human Technology,’ ‘Gender, Technology and Development,’ ‘Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research’ and ‘Sustainable Development Goals and Migration’ (Routledge India).

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