Shinoy is a dedicated social work professional and is currently a Coordinator of the Know Your Body, Know Your Rights programme for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights-Justice. His previous experience in the realm of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for queer-trans folks in the workplace. He has designed, anchored and managed strategic inclusion programmes and is a facilitation expert on issues of intersectionality, queer-trans inclusion in policy and infrastructure, community-led grassroots advocacy, gender-responsive POSH and preventing sexual and gender-based violence. Shinoy’s DEI engagement has been with 30+ diverse organisations, such as HCL Foundation’s Convergence of CSOs in Bangalore, Solidarity Foundation, Student Christian Movement of India, SAATHI, Melton Foundation, Swiggy, Google, Disney Hotstar, Adobe, HP, London Stock Exchange, 3M, LinkedIn, Caterpillar, JP Morgan Chase, and Shell. He has also participated in consultations held in Mumbai and Bangalore on Digital Safety and Reimagining Social Media with POV Mumbai.
His professional focus on human rights and advocacy began as a volunteer with APSA Bangalore, working with the children of migrant labourers and survivors of child sex trafficking; through AIESEC Egypt, supporting Syrian asylum seekers; and as an EQUAL Fellow at The YP Foundation, working on civil and legal entitlements, queer affirmative policy, and healthcare systems. Aside from certifications in public policy analysis from the Centre for Civil Society and queer narratives from the Impact and Policy Research Institute, his article ‘Liberate and Let Liberate: A Queertopia’ has been published by LiveWire Magazine. His academic training includes a Bachelor's in International Relations and Anthropology from the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts and is near completion of his Master's in Gender Sexuality in Global Politics from SOAS University of London. His postgraduate dissertation focuses on how neoliberal discourse and colonial remnants of the British Raj create precarity in the lives of South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.
Shinoy is a dedicated social work professional and is currently a Coordinator of the Know Your Body, Know Your Rights programme for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights-Justice. His previous experience in the realm of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for queer-trans folks in the workplace. He has designed, anchored and managed strategic inclusion programmes and is a facilitation expert on issues of intersectionality, queer-trans inclusion in policy and infrastructure, community-led grassroots advocacy, gender-responsive POSH and preventing sexual and gender-based violence. Shinoy’s DEI engagement has been with 30+ diverse organisations, such as HCL Foundation’s Convergence of CSOs in Bangalore, Solidarity Foundation, Student Christian Movement of India, SAATHI, Melton Foundation, Swiggy, Google, Disney Hotstar, Adobe, HP, London Stock Exchange, 3M, LinkedIn, Caterpillar, JP Morgan Chase, and Shell. He has also participated in consultations held in Mumbai and Bangalore on Digital Safety and Reimagining Social Media with POV Mumbai.
His professional focus on human rights and advocacy began as a volunteer with APSA Bangalore, working with the children of migrant labourers and survivors of child sex trafficking; through AIESEC Egypt, supporting Syrian asylum seekers; and as an EQUAL Fellow at The YP Foundation, working on civil and legal entitlements, queer affirmative policy, and healthcare systems. Aside from certifications in public policy analysis from the Centre for Civil Society and queer narratives from the Impact and Policy Research Institute, his article ‘Liberate and Let Liberate: A Queertopia’ has been published by LiveWire Magazine. His academic training includes a Bachelor's in International Relations and Anthropology from the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts and is near completion of his Master's in Gender Sexuality in Global Politics from SOAS University of London. His postgraduate dissertation focuses on how neoliberal discourse and colonial remnants of the British Raj create precarity in the lives of South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.
