Deepa Narayan

Deepa Narayan PhD is an innovative thinker and disrupter who has worked on issues of poverty, gender inequalities, and self-empowerment at the policy and program design levels across the globe for 25 years. To deepen impact, over time, she translated analytical work into experiential workshops, using creative tools for embodiment and emotional healing for inner transformation. When we change, how we live in the world changes. Over the last 15 years she has explored love and power across genders.

Dr. Narayan spend 10 years living in villages around the world, and later worked at the United Nations and World Bank in Washington D.C. where she was Senior Adviser on poverty reduction and poor people’s empowerment. She trained for 15 years in body-based emotional healing and is now also  and pa delighted DJ. A winner of many awards, she was named one of the top 100 Disruptive Heroes by Hacking Work and one of the top 100 Global Thinkers, by Foreign Policy Magazine. She is the author of 17 books including the seminal series Voices of the Poor A prolific writer and TED speaker, her most recent decade of open-ended research on gender has resulted in three seminal pieces, a book, Chup: Breaking the Silence of India’s Women: a podcast celled What’s A Man, and a new conceptual framework that refines the World Bank’s Gender Strategy. Deepa  currently lives part time on Cortes Island where she also serves as the Vice Chair of the Hollyhock Board.