"The pen is mightier than the sword"

​​ElsaMarie D'Silva

Social Entrepreneur ​

​​​​Books & Compendiums I have authored, edited or contributed to:

• Peacebuilding Practice Textbook 2023 (Chapter 12)
• Decolonising Development in South Asia by Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship
• She Is: Women in STEAM. Celebrating 75 years of India's Independence.
• She Is: Stories of Women Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in India. Also available on Amazon and Flipkart.
• The Ethics of Personal Data Collection in International Relations by Anthem Press - Ethical considerations around crowdsourcing stories of sexual abuse and harassment in public spaces: The Safecity India Story  (with Suzanne Lea).
• The Demographic Dividend and The Power of Youth: Voices from the Global Diplomacy Lab by Anthem Press for the German Federal Foreign Office's Global Diplomacy Lab
  
• Development as Dignity: Frontline Stories from Development Experts in the Global South - Dignity and Gender Based Violence (chapter 10) by Aspen Institute
  
• Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Volume 19, Issue 3 - Springer - Women’s strategies addressing sexual harassment and assault on public buses: an analysis of crowdsourced data (with Suzanne Lea and Abhijith Asok)
  
• International Transport Federation - Stopping gender-based violence in transport (in the compendium - Women’s Safety and Security. A Public Transport Priority)
  
• Digital Technologies and Interventions Against Gender-Based Violence in Rural Areas - SAGE Publishing and International Criminal Justice Review
  

Op-eds, blog posts and articles authored by me​

• Medium - A Retreat to the Heart of Nature in West Virginia
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Prying Eyes, Peeping Toms
• Medium - Men and their relationships with women
• Red Dot Foundation - Mentoring is critical for advancing Gender Equality in STEM Careers
  
• YourStory - ​The Psychology of Small Wins
• World Urban Campaign by UN Habitat-Designing Safe and Liveable Cities
• Aspen Institute- Reflections on Gender and Sustainable Development from the 78th UN General Assembly
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - No expiry date for love or pleasure
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Descent into Darkness
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Love Matters
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Why Settle For Good When You Can Have Great? 
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Happily Ever After: Review of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
• SheThePeople - The Right To Abortion Should Be A Woman’s Decision
• SheThePeople - Why Integrated Services Are Essential To Prevent Crimes Against Women And Girls
• UNRISD - Putting Women at the Centre of Sustainable Development: Rethinking the Eco-Social Contract
• SheThePeople - How Male Allyship Is Critical For Gender Equality
• Indiaspora - Red Dot Foundation
• Medium - ​Statement at the 60th Session of Commission for Social Development
  
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Pronouns and Rainbow Circles
• Women Enabled International - Access and Safety in the Streets of Mumbai
• Leading with AI - Using artificial intelligence to end gender-based violence
• Medium - Want to start a podcast?
• YourStory - How to become a strong leader in the VUCA era
• Tarshi Inplainspeak- Trivializing Women's (Mental) Health
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - ​Use your Power to Empower
• Bonobology - The Burden Of Care, An Often Overlooked Impact Of The Pandemic On Women
• Leading with AI - Challenging abuse and violence on social media through AI
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Despite the odds
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - I see you
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Invisible Women
  
• Leading with AI - Using AI for safer cities: How Safecity is helping fight sexual and gender-based crime
  
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Circle of trust
• YourStory - Women’s Day: How can women become better leaders, managers and bosses?
  
• The Wire - India's Sustained Benevolent Sexism Has Let Its Women Down
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Making the most of our lives
• The Diplomatic Pouch - Leadership | Diplomacy 4.0: Tackling global challenges through the Global Diplomacy Lab
• The Story Center - The Phone Call (a micro story)
• Medium - Tips to fill a fellowship application
• ​Medium - Actions have consequences
  
• Medium - Leave no one digitally behind
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Bridgerton: Pairing up Pressures
• YourStory - A 2021 guide to be your Highest and Best self
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - The importance of Family
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Nothing Lasts Forever
• Times of India - What Kamala Harris’ feat means for aspiring women leaders
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Movie Review: Seeing Allred – The Fight for Equality Goes On
• SheThePeople - Domestic Violence Services Should Be Listed As Essential
• YourStory - Lessons from the Pandemic
• SheThePeople - Paid Period Leave a Progressive Move towards Empathetic Workplaces
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Review: Hot Girls Wanted - Keeping up with the times
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Dismantling a Sex Racket 
  
• Urban Voices - Four ways to build trust in cities to fight COVID19
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - What Makes a Family? - Movie Review: Private Life
• Rotary Voices - Prevent gender based violence
• World Urban Campaign- Inclusive Cities
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Movie Review: The Last Summer
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Gerald's Game - A story of resilience in the face of metaphorical and emotional bondage
• YourStory - It’s time to also act on the pandemic of sexual and gender-based violence 
• Medium - Be Present
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - A letter to my 16 year old self
• World Urban Campaign -  Youth Innovation Challenge
• SheThePeople - Closure for Nirbhaya but is justice delayed, justice denied?
• Medium - Writing to become a Thought Leader
• Your Story - At the start of the ‘feminine’ era, let’s hope for a safe and inclusive world for women
• Global Diplomacy Lab - The lack of a gender perspective in Democracy (with Elizabeth Maloba and Cecilia Barja)
• Tarshi InPlainspeak - Why we still need campaigns like the 16 Days of activism
• SheThePeople - Five Actions You Can Take To End Gender Based Violence
• YourStory - Are we suffering from the Imposter Syndrome?
• SheThePeople - ‘Wife’ comment on Esther Duflo’s Nobel prize indicative of a bigger problem
• SheThePeople - Esther Duflo deserves her Nobel as an economist, don’t call her the ‘wife’
• Tarshi InPlainspeak - Review: Unbelievable
• ​Medium - Using AI for women’s safety
• Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security - Can Data Make India a Safer Place for Women?
• CommonPurpose - What does it mean to be a "Quick" Leader?
• SheThePeople - Five good reasons why free Delhi metro rides will benefit women
• SheThePeople - Why Is The Water Crisis Not Part Of The Election Agenda In India?
• YourStory - A meeting with Hillary Clinton, and finding solidarity in sisterhood
• Medium - Living in a Feminine Era
• SheThePeople - An inconvenient woman
• Medium - Collaborative Leadership
• SheThePeople - Safecity-SheThePeople Survey on Urban Indian Women Voters
• SheThePeople - A tribute to Jet Airways
• Global Diplomacy Lab - The Think-Do Tank that makes Diplomacy possible
• SheThePeople - Why NASA Cancelled The First Ever All-Female Spacewalk
• SheThePeople - Why Fair Representation Of Women In Elections 2019 Is A Must?
• SheThePeople - Swedish Dads-Indian Dads Aims To Be A Conversation Starter
• Medium - Ambiguity and Complexity at the Workplace
• SheThePeople -  Why the Women's Wall in Kerala is Significant
• YourStory - Visualising Women Safety in 2019
• SheThePeople - 2018 Has Really Felt Like It Was The “Year Of The Woman”
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Sheriff Callie, Doc MCStuffins and Barbie Dolls
• The East African - Lustful eyes in the dark, a deafening silence in the light (with Esther Ngumbi)
• Daily Times Pakistan- 16 Days of activism-gender based violence in Pakistan & India (with Quratulain Fatima)
• SheThePeople- The Time For Taking Us For Granted Is Over
• Business World Education- The Power of Mentoring
• Yale Daily News - Ending Sexual Violence
• Ananke Mag - Pinning Safety on the map  (pg 28)
• TwentyThirty - Why societies benefit from more female leadership?
• Tarshi Inplainspeak - Sexuality and the Single Woman
• Yale Daily News - Women in portraiture (with Fauziya Ali)
• SheThePeople - Spotlight: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly explores the power of women’s anger
• SheThePeople - A checklist for institutional response to deal with #MeToo India complaints
• World Pulse- The Future is Female
• SheThePeople - We owe it to ourselves to use #MeToo India movement to push for solutions
• IPS News Agency - Sex Offender Registry is Not Enough to Curb Sexual Violence Against Women (with Quratulain Fatima)
• SheThePeople - UN Official Ravi Karkara sacked over sexual misconduct
• The Wire - Why Pope Francis Must Act Against Jalandhar Bishop
• SheThePeople - Open letter to Pope Francis regarding the Kerala nun rape case (with Ruben Mascarenhas and Nikita D'Cruz)
• SheThePeople - Hope To Me Is The Catalyst That Propels One Forward
• Your Story - Dwindling women on top – why is the number of women CEOs falling?
• Global Diplomacy Lab - How street lights can ease women’s lives and boost the economy
• BW Education - Strategies To Address Sexual Violence On College Campuses
• The Wire - For Pakistan and India, Peace and Gender Equality Should Go Together
• SheThePeople - Managing Carbon Footprint: Are We Doing Enough?
• UN Habitat - Involving Youth in Civic Engagement
• Your Story - Why is it important to have gender-inclusive city planning?
• SheThePeople - “No Single Woman” Policy Limits Our Mobility and Questions Our Agency
• The Quint - “India Most Unsafe For Women”: Fact Vs Perception, Does It Matter?
• Thrive Global - Activist and CEO, ElsaMarie D’Silva, Reflects on Mental Health In Her Home Country of India
• SheThePeople - This is how Andhra women are using Internet to transform their lives
• SheThePeople -  Meeting Hillary Clinton in Mumbai
• SheThePeople - Is there gender equality for mothers with autistic children?
• Tarshi InPlainSpeak - Building Resilience from Memories
• SheThePeople- When will we stop the rape in India?
• SheThePeople - Transport is not Gender Neutral
• United States Govt - My GES Experience and What You Should Know if You’re Attending #GES2017
• Impakter - Tackling Gender Equality Through Technology and Crowdsourced Data
• UN Foundation - Leave no one behind: End Violence against Women and Girls
• ​DFID Inclusive- Safecity. Taking control. Calling for action
• SheThePeople- The year when women roared, marched and spoke up
• SheThePeople - The Silence Breakers - Breaking the silence
• SheThePeople- What can you do beyond #MeToo?
• SheThePeople - 8 hacks for successful entrepreneurship
• SheThePeople - Entrepreneurship is ideal for women
• SheThePeople - Customer service is a two way street
• SheThePeople - Sexual Violence on college campuses is unacceptable
• Safecity- Using Technology for change
• Safecity - Working with Corporates for change
• TechRasam - How online crowdsourced data is helping Safecity understand patterns of sexual violence in India
• SheThePeople - Stalking turned nightmare: Will the goons be punished?
• Vital Voices  - Global Mentoring Walk in Mumbai
• SheThePeople- Sexism and Prejudices in Women's Sport
• SheThePeople - Toxic Sexism at the workplace
• SheThePeople- Worth of a woman
• SheThePeople - Is your work environment toxic for women?
• Tarshi InPlainSpeak- How can we make our cities safer using crowdsourced data.
• SheThePeople - Why every parent must watch "13 Reasons Why"
• NPR- Why I Think The Manchester Attack Was Aimed At Women And Girls
• SheThePeople- Justice for Nirbhaya
• World Pulse - The Fearless Girl of Delhi (won a World Pulse Story Award)
• SheThePeople - Women's rights are under threat
• SheThePeople - 5 tips to boost your social media engagement
• Abierto al publico - Creating Safe Cities for women through technology
• SheThePeople- Meeting my Hero Hillary Clinton
• World Pulse - The Fearless Girl
• World Pulse - Making public spaces safe through technology
• SheThePeople - Are you an active bystander?
• SheThePeople - Make your social enterprise smart and sustainable
• SheThePeople- Women we need you on the stage at conferences (with Monica Jasuja)
• SheThePeople - Working with Millennials
• She The People - Refuse to stay silent
• YourStory - How to make the world safe for all 
• She The People - Great year for #StartingHerUp
• SheThePeople -  Dealing with Depression during the festive season
• TIME - Clothing Regulations Are Just an Excuse to Control Women
• The Hindu - Sexual Harassment in Aviation
• She The People - 5 things you can do to end gender based violence
• She The People -  Not possible to rank cities in India on women's safety
• She The People - Selected representation of women is curating the discourse
• She The People - Are organisers to be blamed for Manels?
• She The People - Are Manels a reality? The India story
• She The People -  We deserve a city with clean air
• She The People - What kind of city do we want?
• She The People- Women are the game changers for Peace
• She The People -  Leadership tips to deal with the speed of change.
• Medium - Leadership lessons from Southwest Airlines
• She The People   - Every small step can be a gamechanger for achieving Sustainability
• World Pulse - The Power of the Community
• She The People - Building peace into our lives
• OnMogul - A Day In My Life
• World Pulse - I stand on the shoulders of giants...
• She The People - Men need paternity leave too
• She The People - Let's not skirt the issue of sexual violence
• She The People - Grace Under Fire: Women athletes at the Olympics
• She The People -  A walk for a Safe City
• She The People - A tribute to the Iron Lady of Manipur
• She The People - Five reasons why Hillary Clinton's nomination is a big deal
• World Pulse - Three policy items women in leadership should undertake globally (with Esther Ngumbi)
• She The People - A woman's place in society
• She The People - Ten tips on how women can support each other
• Your Story - No ceilings for women
• She The People - Six things that make you a solid entrepreneur
• World Pulse - Celebrating my entrepreneurship journey in a networked world
• Huffington Post - Welcoming Men as Caretakers can help close the gender pay gap
• This is Africa  - Ending gender discrimination in land ownership (with Esther Ngumbi)
• She The People - Ladies sign up for public discourse (with Esther Ngumbi and Monica Jasuja)
• Your Story -  I dedicate my success to my mother
• Your Story - How understanding the law is crucial to dealing with sexual harassment
• Good Men Project- Men: It's time to take a personal stand (with Esther Ngumbi)
• CNN - Women, it's time to get rid of 'manels' (with Esther Ngumbi)
• CNN - Don't harass women in public spaces
• The WIP - Crowdsourced data for Gender Equality
• Huffington Post - Enabling Safe Urban Spaces for women in India
• Huffington Post - No foreign diplomats should get away with rape
• The Bitch Media - Dear Film Makers - Stalking is not Romantic (with Holly Kearl)
• The One - How Safecity is helping women and girls speak out and help others
• Warscapes - Safecity combats sexual harassment with Data, Public Art
• NPR - Dear U.N., Why Is It Mainly A Man's World At The Climate Conference? (with Esther Ngumbi)
• She The People - When Systems let us down.
• She The People - Don't let the juvenile walk free (on the Nirbhaya case)
• Rotary Peace blog - Gender and Conflict resolution
• Huffington Post - Sixteen Reasons to Campaign for Women's Rights in 2016 (with Aspen New Voices Class of 2015)
• Safecity - My journey with Safecity
• Safecity - Safecity at SISF and City Lab
• Twitter - Guest post: Tweet to @SafecityIndia to make your city safer
• SE Forum Outreach Accelerator - Focus on the thing you know best and do it well

Interviews, blog posts, books and articles featuring my work

• The Josh Schachnow Show (Podcast)
• Geospatial World
• Liberation
• StratNewsGlobal
• Your Story
• Zonta International
• NPR
• Quezon City Government
• World Justice Project
• Tatler Asia
• NPR
• Heinrich Boll Stiftung
• HerZindagi
• Gratitude Network
• Environment of India
• NDTV
• The Logical Indian
• The Print
• GeoSpatial World
• Global Diplomacy Lab - Coffee Break (podcast)
• Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India
• Money Control
• Sunday Midday
• WorkMob
• Femiliarize
• Telegraph India
• GIZ Leadership Academy for Change (podcast)
• Times of India
• Sunday Midday
• The Swaddle
• YourStory (Quotes on Women Entrepreneurship)
• YourStory (Quotes on India's Covid19 struggle)
• India Together
• YourStory (Quotes on Entrepreneurship and Leadership)
• YourStory (Quotes on Resilience and Recovery)
• Siemens
• US State Department - Voices of Exchange (podcast)
• Bonobology
• New Indian Express
• Fray InterMedia
• Moneycontrol
• Vital Voices - 16 voices from AAPI
• TwentyThirty
• Evoke.org
• Makers India
• NPR
• BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt's “Change Focus to Change – 50 Years of Inspring Responsible Leadership”
  
• YourStory
• The Star
• The Star
• TUMI Talking Transport Transformation (podcast)
• IAC Berlin on Gender Alliance
• Sheroes of COVID (a children's book on pg 41)
• She Builds Cities
• Spiegel
• PeaceDirect - Digital Pathways to Peace (pg 32)
• Institute of Development Studies, UK
• TwentyThirty
• The Fem Word
• Sunday Midday
• The Examiner
• Chevening (podcast)
• ElevatHER (podcast)
• RatioTalks (podcast)
• Aspen New Voices (podcasts)
• Digital Business Women (pg 76-78)
• Business Standard
• Human Rights Solutions
• Deutsche Welle India
• Hindustan Times
• TwentyThirty
• TUMI - Women Mobilize Women in Transport
• Huffington Post
• The Hindu
• Awaaz Changemakers (podcast)
• MidDay
• Social App Hub
• BBC - The Conversation (podcast)
• TwentyThirty (podcast)
• Rotary International
• Deutsche Welle - Founders Valley (video)
• SXSW 2019
• Inventiva
• John Hopkins Global Health Now
• Your Story
• Scroll
• Bride in Reverse
• Ushahidi
• Yale University - World Fellows
• Yale University - World Fellows (podcast)
• Carnegie Council
• Yale Daily News
• SheThePeople
• YourStory
• Swedish Institute (podcast) 
• Abury 
• Future Learn - online course by The Open University UK and Oxfam
• New York Magazine
• Nesta UK
• World Bank
• Ms Magazine
• Technology Widgets (pg 36)
• CoFounder Magazine (pg 26)
• Aspen New Voices
• Indian Women Blog
• Navhind Times
• Blog Talk Radio (podcast)
• One Future Collective
• YourStory
• YourStory
• The Economist (Safe Cities Index 2017)
• Next City
• Rotarian Action Group for Peace
• CityFix
• World Bank
• NPR
• The Guardian (Video)
• Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Volume 19, Issue 3 - Springer (Academic paper)
• UN Habitat/ Huariou Commission (Urban Thinkers Campus)
• IndianWomenBlog
• AlJazeera
• Peace and Collaborative Development Network (Podcast)
• Reuters
• The Red Elephant Foundation's Intersectional Musings
• Women's Healthline
• University of Oxford (Podcast)
• University of Oxford
• Nominet Trust
• DesiOutsiders (Podcast)
• Yours Unapologetically (Podcast)
• Stanford Draper Hills
• UNAOC Intercultural Innovation Award welcome address (video)
• Peace Direct Tomorrows PeaceBuilders Award (video)
• Economic Times (India)
• Tomorrow Makers
• Del Rio News Herald
• Mashable
• La Voz
• Clarin
• Lalicuadora
• Sophia
• Milenio
• Nacional - AM 870 (Radio)
• Tweesurfing
• She-Files
• Forbes
• The Guardian
• SheThePeople
• Femcyclopaedia
• SheThePeople
• Hindustan Times
• SheThePeople
• WIO News
• LoopTT
• Stevie Awards Website
• Vital Voices
• Bisnow
• Arguendo
• Stop Street Harassment
• SheThePeople
• SheThePeople
• Times of India
• SPAN - US Embassy India
• YourStory
• Johnson and Johnson - newsletter
• World Pulse -Leader of the Month
• On the Dot Woman
• UN Foundation
• Huffington Post 
• Devex
• It Pro Portal  (Nominet Trust)
• Aspen Institute
• She The People
• Voice of America
• Fast Company
• Womanity
• USIP
• Times of India
• Times of India (So you think you can Manel)
• NPR
• Mint 
• SheThePeople video interview
• Tech In Asia
• Tech In Asia (Podcast)
• Tech for Good
• The Guardian
• Le Monde
• La Stampa
• She The People
• Vital Voices Blog
• Vital VoicesNewsletter
• Vital VoicesDocumentarian project (pg 151-157)
• Vital Voices VV Lead Fellowship - A Programmatic Approach to Women’s Leadership (pg 12) 
• Johnson & Johnson
• D and C
• IDG
• Biz Divas
• Broadly
• BBC Radio 
• Digital Generation 
• Pebbles in the Water
• The Pioneer
• Asian Age
• Deccan Herald
• DNA
• Hindustan Times
• Core Communique
• The Midday
• Stockholm Impact Hub
• Citiscope
• Badal ja  Humans We Love
• Enact newsletter
• Aidpreneur  (Podcast)
• The State of Women(Podcast)
• Google
• Rodinhoods
• New Indian Express
• DNA India
• Global Post
• Rajasthan Patrika
• Herald Goa
• Goa Chronicle
• PSFK Labs
• Fast Company
• Technical.ly/Philly
• Scroll.in
• Dagens Nyheter
• Washington Post
• DNA
• Al Jazeera
• Rediff
• The BBC – tribute to Nirbhaya
• The BBC – infographic on Delhi
• The BBC
• AlJazeera
• Tech Crunch
• The Story Exchange
• The Globe and Mail
• iDiva
• Kuwait Times
• Saudi Gazette
• Gizmodo
• Gulf News
• The Sunday Mid-day
• Post Noon
• Money Control
• One India News
• The Economic Times
• The Hindu Business Line
• Halabol
• Webopower
• The Hindu
• The Telegraph
• Burness 
• Google  Women Will Initiative
• Global Voices
• Aspen Institute
• Your Story
• Lady Collective
• WRC Asia Leaders
• News Challenge
• Glamour Paris (French)
• Dagenssamhalle (Swedish)
• Snapchat session
• Philanthropy Age
• Catch News
• World Weekly
• India Abroad
• Innovate Development
• Story Exchange
• Eldiario (Spanish)
• Routes Online