Amba Salelkar

Amba Salelkar is based in Chennai. She is a lawyer who works primarily in the area of law and policy around gender, disability and mental health.

Amba is a graduate of the National Law School of India University. She practiced criminal law in Mumbai at the chambers of Advocates Raja Thakare and Avadhut Chimalker till 2012. Her area of focus included socio-economic offences, corporate criminal law, and gender based violence.

Amba moved to Chennai to work on disability and mental health with the Inclusive Planet Centre for Disability Law and Policy in 2012. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship in leadership and excellence at Kings College, London. She is now a Board Member of the Equals Centre for Promotion of Social Justice where she works on evidence based advocacy towards law and policy reform for the inclusion of persons with disabilities. She is also the co-founder of Paarvai Advisors which provides professional services to organizations to promote and preserve diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including through anti sexual harassment policies and redressal mechanisms.

Amba is trained in inclusive facilitation methods, which are rooted in creative processes. She has facilitated the training of a variety of stakeholders in workshops in different settings across India and the Asia region.