Manjula Pradeep is a human rights activist, focusing mainly on the rights of Dalits and women for more than two and half decades. She is former Executive Director of Navsarjan Trust, one of the largest Dalit rights organisations in India. She is the founder of WAYVE Foundation, focusing on the rights of marginalised youth in India. Manjula has represented issues of caste-based discrimination in the United Nations and European Parliament for more than 15 years.