Nimisha Srivastava is currently heading a non-profit in Delhi, India, called Counsel to Secure Justice as Program Director. She leads a team of lawyers, social workers, counsellors, researchers and administrative staff in providing access to justice to child victims of sexual abuse and children in conflict with law, with a focus on using restorative approaches. Under her leadership, CSJ is pioneering the first model of restorative justice within juvenile justice in India.

Nimisha has more than 10 years of experience in advocacy, capacity building, justice systems, rights-based law implementation, public policy development, research, stakeholder engagement and mass communication across Juvenile Justice, Child Protection, Violence Against Women, and vulnerable communities. She was awarded the Allan Nesta ferguson-Commonwealth-Oxford scholarship to study International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.

Nimisha originally trained as a journalist and reported on events like the 2008 Mumbai terror attack as a television correspondent. She decided to shift her career towards the field of human rights in 2010 and since then has worked with non government organisations, advised central and state governments on implementation of rights based legislation and consulted with UNICEF as a child protection expert.