Dr. V. Mohini Giri is one of India's most outstanding gender rights activists, and advocate for the vulnerable and less privileged. She is the Founder Chairperson of the Guild for Service, a New Delhi- based social service organization established in 1972. She was also a founding member of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia; Founder of the War Widows Association; Chairperson of India's National Commission for Women; and chair of the Review Committee on the National Policy for Older Persons.

Recognizing her immense contributions, in 2007 the government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan.

Meera Khanna is Trustee and Executive Vice-President of the Guild of Service. She is also a member of the Committee steering a global treaty to ban violence against women; helped create "The Last Woman First", a global alliance for empowering underprivileged women; a Consultant to the Indian Government's High Level Committee on Status of Women; a member of the Supreme Court of India's Expert Committee on Widows; a poet, whose work has been adapted for Bharatanatyam; and the author of In A State Of Violent Peace and Breaking Paths.