Benaifer Bhadha is a storyteller, leadership coach and experience guide.  Her life’s work is to create safe spaces where people can share their personal experience and grow through the power of voice and non-judgmental listening. Through her work with major foundations, socially conscious companies, NGOs and educational institutions, she has fostered the storytelling of marginalized groups locally, in India, Eastern Europe, and Africa. She is the co-creator of “Two Women Talking”, a personal storytelling performance that explores gender, identity, violence and tradition. Benaifer grew up between the sea-face of Bombay and the cliff sides of England. She is also one of ~190,000 Zoroastrians in the world and is pretty proud of it.

Shubha Bala is an Indo-Canadian- New Yorker, and can be found complaining both when it’s hot and when it’s cold. She’s an engineer, works in criminal justice reform, and is a creator of stories and art of all sorts. She is an alum of Yoni Ki Raat 2016. Her biggest, yet most elusive desire is to be seen – an ongoing quest that currently finds her in Brooklyn with a white man and a black cat.