Architect Sandhya Naidu Janardhan is the Founder and Managing Director of Community Design Agency, headquartered in Mumbai, India. Started in 2016, this organisation of architects, engineers, artists, designers, community advocates, and business professionals work together in communities at the economic bottom, addressing cultural and societal inequalities through the built environment. Sandhya and her team’s recent projects include building a safe workplace for sex workers, a slum redevelopment project to house 1,400 people, an e-waste project to reimagine place of business, and a spatial and infrastructure improvement project in a public housing neighbourhood in Mumbai.  Licensed and educated in India, Sandhya is also a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a TEDIndia Fellow. Her previous work spans multiple countries, in both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors - including landscape architecture and design for a Singapore-based interdisciplinary design firm, and post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti for a US Based non-profit.