Meera Jatav

Meera Jatav is a feminist-journalist based in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, India.

She is the co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya and served as its Chief Editor from 2005 to 2019. In 2020, Meera co-founded an intersectional feminist research collective called Chitrakoot Collective in Uttar Pradesh. In 2021, Meera became one of the eight recipients of the Navayana Dalit History Fellowship; as part of this she is writing an intersectional autobiography of feminist movements in Uttar Pradesh called ‘Hamari Lahariya’ (‘The Waves We Made’ in English), which will be published next year.