Meet the team
Rahul Hasija is a storyteller, communication designer and a participatory facilitator. He has facilitated experiential learning interventions for over 7500 leaders across government agencies, development sector and corporates. His work focuses on enabling people and places for dialogue, collaboration and agency building and draws from international practices such as Art of Hosting, Play for Peace and Flow Game. He is the author of three books and conceptualizer of 10+ board games. He believes he can help people find light and beauty within themselves and says that he makes sense of life through music, movies and writing.
Niom (They/Them) is an unschooler who has been working with and teaching through ‘play’ for the past 6 years. Niom started his own initiative Let’s play to bring playful interventions to teams and groups of all kinds. They are the person behind co-conceptualization of three of the Swacardz creations – Sohum, Map the Wild and Firpi Family. Niom wishes to share the gift of play to the world.
Ramesh brings in the work experience of 20+ years. He has successfully run his distribution and C&FA business in Indore, for over 20+ confectionary and cosmetic brands, handling distribution across the state of Madhya Pradesh; has led the project management team in Fisheries department in Nigeria. He is passionate about history, cricket and his evening walks.
Alok Yadav is a facilitator-coach who has 20+ years of experience in automotive industry (Tata Motors and Ford Motor company) expecially focusing on R&D, quality, and new dodel launch. He bring in his experience of organizational development across corporates and government departments.
Manohar Kabeer produces films with writers and directors and consults businesses on product development, user experience, narrative building and community building. With 13years of experience across media, tech and events. He pursues his mission of enabling communities by collaborating with brands and volunteering projects.
A special mention to our collaborators and design associates, who have shared their services to Swacardz on various projects
Sheena is an artist, an illustrator, story-teller and a theatre artist. Sheena has worked on Kirdaar-e-kashmakash cards and Sohum board game box cover designs.
Sambit is a design professor who has taught at NID, a books-lover and poet at heart. Sambit designed our logo.
Person behind designing the Potli pouches and cotton boards for some of our game products.
An independent artist, who designed illustrations, and layout of a community building toolkit we built for Youth Alliance.
A visual notetaker who can convert anything into beautiful visuals, Indrajit bring in his experience of running his social organization for over a decade
An independent artist, who created beautiful illustrations and layout for Map the Wild board game and also contributed to content of the game.
Founder of The Forgotten Greens movement, Shruti is multi-talented naturalist, facilitator and an artist. She co-created Map the Wild board game with us.
A researcher, and ecology enthusisast, Sarumati is a naturalist, and works on menstrual health, and commons.
