Sushmita Mukherjee is a Director, Gender and Adolescent Girls at PCI India. Ms. Mukherjee provides an overall direction and guidance for gender mainstreaming in the execution of different projects. She also leads the ‘Umang Project’ as Project Director, Jharkhand that strives to empower mothers as key agents to stop Child Marriage of young adolescent girls and boys. She helps PCI India build its body of work in the gender and empowerment domain and has created a space for itself among its peers and donors. Before joining PCI, Sushmita worked at CARE India as Regional Program Director. Sushmita graduated from Delhi University with a Master’s Degree in Community Resource Management and Extension.