Kiran Dayal

State President

Madhya Pradesh Equality & Empowerment Council

India

Kiran Dayal is an intersectional design thinker, researcher, and art practitioner whose work explores women’s presence, gaze, labor, and lived experiences through the lens of gender, caste, and social power structures. Born in 1995, she identifies as a middle-class cisgender woman from a backward caste, and her practice critically examines social hypocrisy as a barrier to women’s inclusion. Using symbolism and diverse materials, her work foregrounds acceptance, tolerance, and equity within the broader discourse of gender and development.

Driven by a sustained inquiry into power and privilege, Kiran pursued her post-graduation in Social Design from Ambedkar University, Delhi (2019–21). She has since designed and facilitated socially engaged art and design interventions with women and migrant communities in Delhi’s JJ clusters. Currently, she is working with rural women communities in Madhya Pradesh as a State Bank of India Fellow (Youth for Change). Her flagship project,