KP/ Ketki Ranade (pronouns: they/ them) is faculty at the Center for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai. KP has completed their graduation in psychology from Mumbai University and later studied at TISS and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore.

Before joining the School of Social Work at TISS in 2010, KP has worked for almost a decade as a mental health service provider, researcher and activist and has developed mental health service programs in low income urban settlements and institutions such as the Beggar’s Home and Family Court in Pune and Bombay.

KP’s research, writing and teaching is in the areas of mental health law, policy, programmes and advocacy, LGBTQ mental health, clinical social work and research methodology. KP is the author of ‘Growing Up Gay – A critical psychosocial perspective’, Springer (2018) and lead author of ‘Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice – A Resource Book for Mental Health Practitioners in India’, MHI (2022) as well as Trans Affirmative Mental Health Care Guidelines: results of a mixed-method inquiry in three cities of India (2023). They have edited a Special Issue of the Indian Journal of Social Work titled, Coming Out Of The Dark: Emerging Discourse On Queer Affirmative Mental Health Practice In India in 2022.

KP has served on committees of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, to develop status and planning documents for trans inclusion. They continue to advocate for queer and trans inclusion in institutions of higher education and mental health service spaces and curriculum. They have been a visiting faculty at University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2015). KP’s legal name is Ketki Ranade although they prefer to be addressed as KP.