Dhriti joined Respect as Health and Domestic Abuse Lead in August 2024, to lead a national initiative to shape the health sector’s response to perpetrators of domestic abuse, as part of Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse’s ‘Crossing Pathways’ programme of work.
Dhriti has worked predominantly in the charity sector across a range of social justice issues. She was first drawn to the ending VAWG sector in 2017, as a volunteer on the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, and has since worked in a variety of roles across service delivery both in frontline and operational management, and changing systems through programme development and management, as well as carrying out research and evaluations. Dhriti is passionate about collaboration and centring lived and learned experience to enact effective systems change.
In her spare time, she likes to go for walks with her gorgeous rescue dog and is a proud trustee of a brilliant women’s mental health charity called WISH. Dhriti also holds an LLM in Human Rights Law.