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Mona Sinha
Equality Now
Global Executive Director
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S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an organization that campaigns
for legal and systemic change around the world to address violence and discrimination against
women and girls.
For 25 years, Mona has leveraged her corporate experience to launch, lead or advise over 90
mission-aligned organizations to create a gender-equal world. She is the former Board Chair of
Women Moving Millions and serves on the Executive Council of the Smithsonian American
Women’s History Museum, as well as the Advisory Board of Gucci CHIME. Creating inclusive
communities is at the center of her strategic approach, which she believes is the key to
unlocking sustainable organizational growth.
Mona is the Executive Producer of 2024 Oscar nominated documentary To Kill a Tiger, which
speaks to male allyship being critical in supporting survivors of sexual violence. Equality Now
serves as Impact Partner to the film. She was Executive Producer of Disclosure, an
award-winning Netflix documentary on the representation of trans people in entertainment,
which premiered at Sundance in 2020. She has produced Sell.Buy.Date (premiered at SXSW,
2022) and My Name is Andrea (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, 2022). She is also an
Executive Producer of the 73rd Tony Awards nominee for Best Play and finalist for the 2019
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, What the Constitution Means to Me (2019).
Mona has been recognized for her leadership by Forbes 50 over 50:Impact, the New York Bar
Association, Columbia Business School, Smith College, Children’s Hope India, CARE USA,
Modern High School (Kolkata), Women’s eNews, Breakthrough, Gloria Steinem, and Apne Aap.
In 2015, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an award presented annually to US
citizens whose accomplishments and service in their field are cause for celebration.
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