Prof. Hajira Kumar, Head, Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia lslamia (A Central University), New Delhi has been associated with teaching, research, and extension for the last three decades. She also provides professional and technical assistance to several NGOs, Ministries and Departments of Social Work, in other universities. She had been the Honorary Director of Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies, Jamia Millia lslamia for four years. Her contribution in the literature of social work is noteworthy. Besides several articles, she has seven books at her credit such as: Voluntary Action and the Financial Gap (1988), Social Work - An Experience and an Experiment in India (1993), Theories in Social Work Practice (1995), Social Work, Social Development and Sustainable Development (1997), Status of Muslim Women in India (2002), Social Work and Developmental Issues (2005) and Women's Empowerment: Issues, Challenges and Strategies - A Source Book (2005).
Dr. Jaimon Varghese, a social work practitioner and a guest faculty in Department of Social Work, Delhi University has been a keen researcher on the issue of women empowerment. He did his master’s in Social Work and M.A. in Psychology. He has also earned PG Diploma in Labour Welfare and PG Diploma in Office Management. His association with an NGO St. Joseph's Service Society is several years old in various capacities. He had been the project officer for four research projects undertaken by Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies (SNOWS), Jamia Millia lslamia. He did his doctoral research on the topic of Empowerment of Women Literacy Workers in 2006. He is co-author of a source book 'Women's Empowerment: Issues, Challenges and Strategies-A Source Book' (2005). Besides, he has several research-based articles on his credit. In other words, he blended in him an active grassroots level worker, a researcher and a teacher.
