Anne M. Richard is one of the members of African Womens Empowerment Group (AWEG)'s Workshop organizing committee. She emigrated to the US in 2007 and has been a member of AWEG group since 2009. She holds a B.A (Econ.) from the University of Mumbai. She specializes in Early Childhood Education and was instrumental in developing a national tool for Equity in early learning, with School Readiness Consulting. Anne is a mother of 4 children. Anne is a big advocate for equity and social justice. She is especially compassionate to the cause of children and aims to give them a voice in the circumstance of domestic violence and abuse.