Kirthi Jayakumar is an activist, artist, entrepreneur, and writer from Chennai, India. She founded and runs the Red Elephant Foundation, a civilian peacebuilding initiative that works for gender equality through storytelling, advocacy, peace education, and tech-for-good. One of her books made it to the final shortlist for the Muse India Young Writers’ Literary Award. Her work has been published in The Guardian and the Time magazine.

She is currently pursuing her second MA in Peace and Conflict Studies at Coventry University, UK.