Our Mission and Purpose
Why do we do this?
Justice Adda works towards transforming the relationship people have with the justice system. The justice system is usually thought of as complex, distant, overwhelming and intimidating. Our endeavour is to empower people to use the law for their well-being.
How do we do this?
Through the process of co-production, iteration and applying principles of design justice, our interventions seek to identify and reduce barriers people face to access justice, and provide them with strategies to resolve unmet legal needs. We believe that this can foster greater engagement and trust in the legal system, creating better individual and social outcomes.
What do we do?
We strive to make information about laws and the justice system thought provoking, playful, and understandable. Our projects are open access and multilingual - available in multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, and Kannada making our resources accessible to especially those who may not engage with English content.
We aim to bridge knowledge gaps, engage people and communities with socio-legal issues and tools in a language and format that feels familiar and relatable.
Meet the Team
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder
Siddharth is a legal researcher and educator. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design. He is an Assistant Professor in AI and Society at the University of Warwick.
Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead
Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.
Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead
Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.
Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead
Varsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform. Varsha is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at NLSIU.
Naomi Jose
Editorial Lead
Naomi T Jose is an Assistant Professor at the English Department of Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She worked at Justice Adda as the Research and Operations Lead with a focus on pedagogy and legal awareness.
Janani TP
Operations Co-ordinator
Janani is an advocate, with work experience in tax, succession planning and policy-research. Her interests include legal literacy for school and college students.
Sharada Kerkar
Law & Senior Consultant,
Policy & Design
Sharada Kerkar is a development sector practitioner, and illustrator. She graduated in Public Policy and Human Development from UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.
Saumya Varma:
Senior Consultant, Parliament and Policy Research
Saumya is a public policy professional with several years of experience in the parliamentary and legislative research space. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Oxford.
Payal Chandra
Senior Consultant and Legal Advisor
Payal is a lawyer based in Delhi and practicing before courts and tribunals in India. With over 12 years of experience including a stint with a leading Indian law firm in India, her practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation, arbitration and advisory.
Soumya Jha
Senior Consultant
(Law and Policy)
Soumya Jha is a New Delhi–based lawyer, holding a Masters in Law from the National University of Singapore, and Bachelors from Delhi University. Soumya is currently heading Anthems for Justice, which explores the relationship between the law and art, especially music.
Rachit Sharma
Senior Associate
Rachit is an advocate practicing before courts and tribunals in India. He holds a degree from the National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam. His professional interests focus on projects at the intersection of legal research and design.
Rajith Nair
Financial Controller
Rajith is a finance consultant, with a Masters in Commerce currently pursuing CA from ICAI, New Delhi. He specializes in providing comprehensive financial services to individuals and businesses alike, with a focus on tax litigation proceedings.
Aditi Nayak
Research Associate
Aditi is a researcher and development practitioner with an MSc in Urban Studies and an MA in Development. Her work explores the intersection of gender and the urban, especially women’s safety and violence.
Saee Bhate
Research Analyst
Saee , a lawyer from Goa with an LLM in Human Rights Law, blends her academic foundation from Goa University and V. M. Salgaocar College of Law with a passion for access to justice.
Eugenia Melo e Granjo
Research Assistant
Eugenia is pursuing her LLM in Criminology at V. M. Salgaocar College of Law, Goa, with research interests in child rights and environmental justice. As an illustrator, she brings visual storytelling into her legal work to reimagine how justice can be made more accessible.
Teresa Sebastian
Senior Consultant, Design
Teresa is a visual communications designer from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra, India. Her interests and projects include illustrating for social causes especially related to children’s rights.
Who do we work with?
These projects have, through different strategies, aimed to:
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understand people’s experience of justice and the law and foreground diverse voices to inform policies, advocacy efforts, and new legal innovations that can bring about meaningful change.
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research and analyse how the law impacts people’s lives, particularly those on the margins, and explore interventions that promote justice, equity, and empowerment - with real-world data, case studies, and field insights.
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break-down and explain complex research in a comprehensible, practically relatable and actionable way .
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facilitate workshops and learning spaces to enable people and communities to access the justice system.
Our Annual Reports
Organization
Justice Adda, part of Jusadd Innovation Lab LLP is a social enterprise that helps human rights campaigners, development organisations, justice and other legal institutions to empower people to understand and use the law by providing content, design, and technology solutions.
Justice Adda was incubated at the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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