Anjana Dayal de Prewitt

Anjana is currently working as the Assoc. Dir. for Psychosocial Support and Protection at Save the Children US Programs. In the last 16 years, she has worked in over 25 countries in humanitarian and development settings where she conducted assessments, conflict analysis, managed programs, developed training curriculum and trained local teams. She served as the Senior Advisor for Gender and Community Mobilization with the Intl, Services Dept. of the American Red Cross. During her tenure, she developed guidelines, and capacity building activities pertaining to psychosocial support, gender mainstreaming and community mobilization. She is part of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Global Task Group at Save the Children & at the Reference Center for Psychosocial Support in the Red Cross Movement.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Lucknow University (India), a Master’s degree in Sustainable Peace from UN Mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica) and a Diploma in Humanitarian Diplomacy from DiploFoundation. In addition, she has completed course work on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support from Oxford University, Disaster Mental Health Institute, South Dakota University, and Asia Disaster Preparedness Center . She speaks four languages.

 She is a published author. In addition to her two books, Gudia: A Defiant Doll and Papa ke Joote (Hindi), her work has been published in peer reviewed journals and books on subjects related to gender, community mobilization and psychosocial support. Her last publication was a chapter on Role of Women and Religion in Peacebuilding & Trauma Healing in a book entitled Women, Religion & Peacebuilding. She is currently finalizing her next poetry book focusing on Individual Resilience..

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Director, Community Mobilization for the Red Cross