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Namrata Bali is an Indian social worker from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She is presently the director of the Indian Academy for Self Employed Women, popularly known as SEWA Academy http://www.sewaacademy.org/. It is a charitable organization that works for the capacity building of women workers of the informal sector. SEWA Academy is the sister concern of SEWA ( Self Employed Women Association), https://www.sewa.org/about-us/. For the past 30 years, she has been involved in organizing urban and rural workers into handcraft cooperatives at SEWA-the trade union of women workers from the informal sector. Previously, she has also served as the trade union's General Secretary(2005-2003) and as its Secretary (2001-2003). She is also the chairperson of the SEWA video cooperative called Video SEWA and the director of SEWA's community radio, Rudi no Radio. She is also the editor of SEWA's fortnightly newsletter Ansooya.

She is presently the director of the Indian Academy for Self Employed (SEWA Academy)-the trade union's main research, training and communication centre. She is also actively associated with the International Federation of Worker's Education Associations (IFWEA), https://ifweaonline.org/