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Chandana Dey, a founder of the UNITWIN Network on Gender, Culture, and Development and Nandini Dey, a social activist in India, pay a visit to this monument to women.

Deborah Belle, at right, Director of the WGS, leads a discussion with scholars and the WGS Team on the occasion of the visit of our UNESCO/UNITWIN partners from West Bengal.
From right to left: Professor Deborah Belle, Visiting Scholar Smitha Radhakrishnan, UNITWIN founding partner Chandana Dey, Social Activist Nandini Dey, WGS Program Coordinator Carly Pack-Bailey, Teaching Assistant Katherine Lochery

At the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC), Chandana is in front of the banner stitched by the village women outside of Shantiniketan in West Bengal. The slogan on the banner reads "Celebrating Women Year Round and Across the Seasons".

Chandana and Nandini Dey meet with Kristen Mullin, the coordinator of the Student-Scholar Partnership Program, that has assisted Chandana Dey and Krishno Dey of the Bhab Initiative in West Bengal and WSRC Resident Scholar Brenda Gael McSweeney in their joint action research and preparation of gender case studies.

Right to Left: UNITWIN Network founding member Chandana Dey, Social Activist Nandini Dey, Grad Student at Stanford University Gautam Dey, Teaching Assistant Katherine Lochery