Geraldine Forbes is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita in the Department of History and and program in Women’s and Gender Studies at the State University of New York Oswego. A pioneer in researching and writing women’s history in Colonial India, in the 1970s and 80s interviewed women who played a role in India’s first women’s organizations. She has published extensively on women’s struggle for political and social rights, and women’s memoirs.
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Her connection with NGOs working with Indian women began in the 1980s and she is currently a member of the National Advisory Board of Stree Shakti and on the International Advisory Board of SPARROW. From 2009-2014, she organized, in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Research Centre of Calcutta University, workshops on Sex Trafficking and NGO Responses to Sex Trafficking. As a volunteer, she has worked with refugee support organizations in the USA and Southeast Asia.