Grants:Project/Chinmayisk/Community toolkit for Greater Diversity/April Update

Team

We spent the month of April approaching and setting up meetings with the people we identified last month as potential writers and advisors. We added two new advisors to our team and two module writers. We have updated the team profiles: [[1]]

Advisory Board

We added two new advisors to the advisory board.

Advisors

Zara Rahman -- Lead, Research, Engagement and Communities team at The Engine Room
Geeta Seshu -- Independent journalist

Confirmed Module Writers (As of April 30)

Amba Salelkar
Mary Beth

Volunteers

For the literature survey we issued a call for volunteers on Twitter and recruited a wonderful volunteer Priyangee who helped us conduct the literature survey.

Finances

For this month our expenses have been mainly salaries.

Literature Survey

We identified approximately 50 academic papers and approximately 12 non-academic texts and reports for conducting a literature survey. We have drafted research questions for the literature survey and here is the initial work on it. Here is the work draft of literature survey [[2]]

We believe identify and build our modules based on the literature survey.