Our Story
The Centre for Men and Boys was born from the combined leadership journeys of its co-founders, Dilip Pattubala and Krishna Dahya. Over the last decade, Dilip worked with nearly a million women and girls through pioneering menstrual health and adolescent programs, while Krishna worked with hundreds of leaders globally, helping them navigate adaptive challenges and drive social change. Though their professional paths were distinct, both arrived at a shared insight: understanding how systems hold and shape power - who has it, how it is maintained, and how it affects both those in control and those at the margins - is central to building a more just world.
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From this understanding grew a focused commitment: to advance gender justice by addressing how power, especially masculine power, operates inside institutions. We believe that reshaping gendered systems is key to improving the lives of women, girls, and marginalized groups, and also to supporting boys and men themselves to engage with care, courage, and accountability. This belief led to the founding of the Centre: a space dedicated to examining how masculinity is institutionalized and how we can co-create systems that make space for healthier, fairer, more relational futures for everyone.
Meet the Team
We are a small team rooted in care, curiosity, and collaboration.
Each of us brings lived experience and a commitment to reimagining how systems shape the lives of men, boys, and all of us.
Co-founder
Krishna Dahya
She has over a decade of experience working with leaders, organizations, and communities across India and the United States. She led the Acumen India Fellows Program and later shaped global leadership strategy. As a Foster America Fellow, she advanced child welfare reform in Colorado through participatory research with families and cross-system collaboration. She has taught adaptive leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and is passionate about creating spaces where communities shape the systems that impact their lives.
Communications & Research Consultant
Malvika Dang
She has over five years of experience in research, video production and editing. She has served as a multi-format producer, producing long and short-form videos for documentaries, campaigns and marketing, and audio content for podcasts. Her creative work is inextricably pivoted upon public action, as every endeavor strives to ameliorate its impact upon her audience(s). Away from work, she can be spotted cushioned between cats and creating/consuming music.
Co-founder
Dilip Pattubala
He has spent over 15 years working at the intersections of public health, gender, and systemic change. As co-founder of Uninhibited, he helped over a million women and girls across India gain greater dignity, voice, and access through menstrual health. As lead of the Menstrual Health Hub, he brought together a global coalition of 950 organizations to push menstrual health higher on the global agenda. He is deeply passionate about reshaping gender norms and engaging men and boys in building healthier, more inclusive futures.
Research Consultant
Sakshi Srivastava
She has spent the last five and a half years working at the intersections of menstrual health and gender justice as a participatory researcher and monitoring and evaluation practitioner. She believes research should not just study people but be shaped by them, and is passionate about exploring how structures and systems impact everyday lives. Her approach is guided by care, nuance, and justice. Outside of work, she can often be found hanging out with her cat (when he allows it) or having full-blown conversations entirely in memes.
Funders & Partners
