Aneeqa Khalid

Aneeqa works as a Project Officer and Research Associate on Outlive. She has completed her Master’s in Social Work in Mental Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and holds a diploma in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from Sciences Po, Paris.  At Outlive, she develops training materials, facilitates capacity-building sessions, mentors young people, and collaborates with multiple stakeholders.

Prior to joining CMHLP, she worked as a teaching assistant and a field researcher. Her experience centers around working with marginalized youth, children, and women in Kashmir, Delhi, Himachal and Mumbai. She works on mental health advocacy, awareness, and its intersection with human rights.  

Her lived experiences of being a Kashmiri inform her commitment to mapping conflict through a psychosocial lens. She aspires to create a decolonized practice of community mental health that serves people from marginalized communities.

Aneeqa is an ailurophile and an avid trekker who enjoys spending time in the mountains, out of network zones.

Professional interests: Decolonizing mental health, community mental health, social justice, suicide prevention, play therapy, humans rights.