Joya Banerjee is a global health and development professional with 20 years of experience in gender-based violence (GBV); gender-transformative programming; sexual reproductive health and rights; maternal, child and adolescent health; and HIV and AIDS. She currently serves as the Senior Gender Advisor at Be the Change Group, a technical and creative population health, education and climate consulting firm. Previously, Joya has worked across the development, nexus and humanitarian settings at CARE, Jhpiego, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNFPA.

Joya received a BA in Human Rights and Political Science cum laude from Barnard College in 2004, and a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2010. She has a broad array of field experience in 14 low and middle-income countries, most substantively in India, South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Chile. Joya has worked across sectors as a program implementer, quantitative and qualitative researcher, policy and advocacy specialist, feminist and racial justice activist, grant-maker, fundraiser and non-profit founding director. She has authored 17 peer-reviewed articles on GBV, gender, sexual reproductive health and rights, and maternal newborn child and adolescent health.