Our Board

Sanjay Singh

President, Board of Directors
Sanjay, a long-time resident of Tri-Valley, embodies the spirit of community service and dedication to social causes. With over two decades of involvement in community work, he has made significant contributions to various organizations in the area. Six years ago, Sanjay joined Narika as a volunteer, demonstrating his commitment to women's rights and equality. His dedication and leadership skills have led him to his current role as the president of Narika's board. Sanjay is a strong advocate for the organization's mission, which aligns with his personal beliefs in gender equality and the eradication of domestic abuse. Sanjay firmly believes that domestic abuse is a community-wide issue that requires collective action. He encourages more men to join the cause, recognizing that their involvement is crucial in addressing and preventing such problems. His philosophy emphasizes the power of individual contributions, no matter how small, in creating a significant impact on the community. When not engaged in his community service efforts, Sanjay enjoys Photography, Camping and Mountain Biking. Sanjay's dedication to community service, particularly in supporting women's rights through Narika, serves as an inspiring example of how individuals can make a difference in their local communities.

Shailaja Dixit

Executive Director
Shailaja holds 10 plus years in the field of domestic violence advocacy, management and community engagement. Shailaja began her work in this field years ago as volunteer/staff at Narika and is grateful to return in a leadership role. Prior to joining Narika, Shailaja served at SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments) as Community Engagement Manager, working to mobilize resources , community education and volunteer participation. Shailaja is the co-founder of the grassroots non profit Rewire Community. She has also served as a Commissioner on the Contra Costa Commission for Women and Girls. She is currently a member of the San Ramon Valley Diversity Coalition Steering Committee. In 2020 Shailaja was recognized as a 2020 Hall of Fame Honoree, as part of Women Demonstrating Leadership in Contra Costa County.
Prior to her transformative shift to becoming a domestic violence intervention and prevention advocate, Shailaja spent 12 plus years in the corporate world, holding strategic management positions in the field of custom market research, serving the pharmaceutical, financial and banking industries. Shailaja earned her Masters in Mass Communication from the University of Florida in 2000.
Shailaja believes in building collaborative networks of care and in the power of an engaged and informed community. Her vision is to build a trauma-informed, survivor-centered, culturally responsive service organization, grounded in core values of integrity, equity, inclusion and compassion. To refill and reset, she loves to take long walks, wade in summer-kissed rivers and dabble in theater.

Kalpa Chobe

Secretary, Board of Directors
Kalpa Chobe is the Vice President of Privacy, Security and Technology Compliance within Kaiser Permanente’s Ethics and Compliance department. She joined Kaiser Permanente in 2014, prior to which she worked at Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has multi-year experience in the areas of IT auditing, legal and compliance and risk management.
Kalpa holds both a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Mumbai in India. She later received a master’s degree in accounting information systems from Texas A&M University.
Kalpa has lived in the Bay Area for more than 20 years and over the years contributed to, and been affiliated with, various causes such as homelessness, patient care and child education, here and in India. She is passionate about giving back to the community and contributing to causes specific to women empowerment and child education. Narika’s mission has inspired her to create awareness about the issue of domestic violence and make a difference in the lives of the survivors.

Sajeena Warrier

Treasurer, Board of Directors
Sajeena Warrier is a seasoned leader who has held numerous strategy and operational roles in the products and services business units of McAfee, Network General, and Aspect. Sajeena enjoys and actively seeks changing and dynamic environments. Sajeena's experience working in the business encompasses bringing new products and services to market to create customer and business value. Her work on business strategy has focused on portfolio transformation for growth and scale.
Sajeena holds a Master of Business Administration from the Lucas Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University, a Master of English from Purdue University, and an Honors Bachelor of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College of Delhi University.
Sajeena has an enduring interest in contributing to organizations and initiatives supporting women's careers, professional growth, education, wellness and safety.

Ranjan Sinha

Member, Board of Directors
Ranjan Sinha is the Vice President, Fellow, and Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Global Chief Data Office. He is a digital transformational leader and innovator in consumer and enterprise data and AI platforms and solutions. Ranjan is passionate about promoting a society that ensures wellness, safety, and empowerment of vulnerable groups. He has been supporting causes in areas such as female literacy, feeding the poor, digital abuse and climate change. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, traveling, gardening, and hiking with his family.

Rima Chakraborty

Member, Board of Directors
Rima is a financial services professional with a breadth of experiences across IT finance, banking, and project management. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to take an 8-year hiatus during the peak of her finance career to own, operate, and successfully exit a few businesses, including a luxury day spa. She later found her way back to a career in finance, and in addition to her role as a Private Client Advisor with JP Morgan Chase she now mentors young women to be savvy with personal finances and achieve financial independence.
Her penchant for travel led her to spend four years working abroad in the UK and Paris and to visit 19 countries across Europe and the Asia Pacific. She brings the influences of her travels into her cooking and loves hosting and entertaining friends in her home.
Rima is passionate about strengthening communities by empowering women to escape abusive relationships. True to Narika’s mission, she is committed to supporting survivors of domestic abuse by guiding them in matters of their financial freedom.

Noona Sankaran

Member, Board of Directors
Noona is trained as a teacher and a reading specialist and has always been passionate about causes that serve women and children. Having gone through her own struggles, she strongly believes in the empowerment of women and helping them develop confidence and build resilience from setbacks. She has worked as a teacher helping children with learning disabilities reach their full reading potential. Noona has traveled to Ecuador with Global Volunteers and worked with children in an orphanage to help them read and grasp basic concepts in math through the tactile learning model. In Atlanta, she volunteered with CARE and organized a group with high school students to raise awareness on social causes. After moving to California, she served on the Foothill-DeAnza board to help promote cost-effective education for students in the local community. Noona has also volunteered for over 10 years as a CASA. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, meditation, walking her doodle, cooking, socializing, volunteering and entertaining.

Astha Pandey

Member, Board of Directors
Astha Pandey is an alumni of Amity Law School, Noida. She graduated B.A.LL.B(H) majoring in Business Laws. Subsequently, she moved to the U.S. to pursue her LLM (Master’s of Law) in Business and Finance Law from the George Washington University, Washington DC, where she was offered the prestigious Thomas Buergenthal Scholarship.
She has been working with Chugh LLP in Santa Clara, California for nearly 5 years now in the field of US corporate immigration and is very passionate about helping people in the process and making a difference by contributing towards society.
Astha has always actively participated in extra and co-curricular activities as well since childhood. She has represented her schools/colleges at various competitions at university and national levels. She likes being involved in organizing and participating in events and initiatives at her workplace and in personal life.

Sarika Khanna

Member, Board of Directors

Sarika is a global C-level executive with over 25 years of experience and deep domain expertise as a Chief Product Officer in B2B and SaaS organizations, ranging from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies. She has a strong track record in P&L oversight, significantly impacting company strategy and operations. Sarika has extensive experience in M&A, with over 25 acquisitions across her career, including due diligence, product strategy integration, and product and organization integration.

Sarika most recently served as the Chief Product Officer for Medallia Inc., an almost $1B revenue-leading B2B SaaS customer and employee experience platform. Before that, she worked as General Manager of Litmos, which was acquired by SAP as part of the CallidusCloud acquisition of over $2B. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years at Oracle Corp, starting as an engineer and developing into a product manager.

Sarika is passionate about women's empowerment and has been actively involved in giving back as a volunteer in mentoring and coaching students from her alma mater and mentoring young Indian startups with a focus on women entrepreneurs. To promote women in the workplace, she chaired the Women in Tech resource group at Medallia. She has been married for 28 years, has two children, loves the outdoors, yoga, and cooking, and is an avid reader.