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Author: Monalisa Padhee

Monalisa Padhee, PhD, is a medical researcher and the head of Women Wellness Initiative and Enriche health at the Barefoot College working with women and girls in rural India. She is a 2019 Aspen New Voices Fellow.
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Celebrating Boundary-Breaking, Norm-Changing Grandmothers Around the World

Monalisa Padhee

My grandmother decided to end an abusive marriage in 1961, at a time when divorce was not even considered an option. She went against everyone and raised my mother single-handedly to be an independent woman. Her examples of courage and her values enabled my mother and me to fight for our rights and have a […]

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