Episode 29: Gender and Technology
In conversation with Gayatri Buragohain, Founder and Executive Director of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), a non-profit based in India. FAT is dedicated to enabling access to technology and STEM education as well as support leadership building of disadvantaged adolescent girls and young women. An electronics engineer by education, FAT combines Gayatri’s technological background with her passion for working towards a gender just society. Although Gayatri has been working primarily towards building FAT since 2007, she has also run a tech enterprise called Joint Leap Technologies (2008 to 2013), served as the ACM-W Ambassador in India (2010 to 2011) and served as the Executive Director of Foundation for Social Transformation (FST) in North East of India (2013 to 2016) in between this period. In this episode, Gayatri speaks to us about her journey that led her to set up Feminist Approach to Technology to now leading its transition to become a community led organisation adopting a new collective leadership structure, and her next D-dream.