Sessions
How the Light Gets In: Stories of India’s Poorest Mothers
Ashok Alexander with Divya Shekhar
Out of Darkness: Breakthrough Stories
Ashok Alexander, Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Ruchira Gupta with Aunohita Mojumdar
Bio
Ashok Alexander is the Founder of the Antara Foundation, which focuses on averting needless deaths and illness amongst India’s poorest mothers and their children. His memoir — How the Light Gets In — is a salute to the heroism of those women, and a memoir about “…the adventure that lies deep within ever person…”
Ashok has been a Senior Partner at McKinsey, head of the Gates Foundation in India, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Publc Health.