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Ensaaf
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Co-Founded with Sukhman Dhami
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2006 Global Fellow
bold idea
Achieve justice for mass state crimes committed by the Punjabi government against the Sikh community through the documentation of abuse, litigation, and the organization of survivors in exile.
Personal Bio
Jaskaran currently serves as Executive Director of Open Books, a nonprofit organization that brings LGBTQ+ affirming stories to school libraries. After 20 years co-founding and co-running Ensaaf, Jaskaran briefly worked with a global health organization to conduct an audit of operations, systems, and evaluation. Jaskaran has over 2 decades of hands-on experience designing and building strategy, programs, operations, and data-driven evaluation. At Ensaaf, Jaskaran co-designed and co-implemented the largest crimes against humanity documentation project in India across 12,000 villages, including 4 pilot studies, 24 local fieldworkers, and the documentation of 5,300 cases of disappearances or unlawful killings over 7 years and 10,000 interviews. She co-designed the architecture of a unique interactive data visualization site, mapping cases across time and space, connecting over 75 variables, linking perpetrators, providing key statistics, and sharing victim profiles. Jaskaran also developed an interactive oral history archive to magnify and share narratives.
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