Ashif Shaikh is co-founder Jan Sahas. He has a 20-year experience on working to towards safe migration, ending forced labour practices and violence against women through eradication of inhuman practice of manual scavenging, caste based commercial sexual exploitation of children and trafficking and also supporting to survivors of rape, trafficking and sexual abuse to access to justice in India. Ashif is member of the various committees of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and other ministries of Government of India, and received various national and international awards and fellowships including Ashoka Fellowship, Times of India Social Impact Award and Star Impact Award by Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States. He is in the boards of multiple national and international CSOs and networks.