Celebrating Female Leadership in the ISAIL.IN Community

On this International Women's Day, the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL.IN) pauses to express its deepest gratitude to the remarkable women who shape our work, our community, and our mission every day.

Hamda Arfeen, who works on AI-powered contract management at LegalEase Solutions and is pursuing a PhD on AI regulation in India at Symbiosis University, brings both practitioner depth and academic rigour to our Policy Innovation Committee. Alongside her, Nisha Singh, Co-Chairperson of the Committee and a graduate of National Law University, Lucknow, bridges corporate law, AI language training, and data ethics in her contributions to ISAIL's policy engagements.

Our Advisory Council carries tremendous breadth. Shirsha Ray Chaudhari, who heads the ML Engineering team at Thomson Reuters Labs in Bangalore, has participated in crucial ISAIL interventions on ethical AI in digital public infrastructure and consistently champions AI for social good. Prof. Dr. Cristina Vanberghen, a leading European voice on the EU AI Act, brings invaluable cross-jurisdictional perspective to our regulatory interventions.

Arletta Gorecka, a lecturer and researcher from Scotland whose PhD and published Springer monograph examine the intersection of competition law and data privacy, strengthens our thinking on AI-driven markets. Ayushi Agarwal, an AI entrepreneur, data scientist, and holder of 12 patents whose work addresses responsible AI in mental healthcare, represents the innovative frontier our forum is built to support. Genevieve Donnellon-May, a geopolitical and global strategy advisor whose work focuses on resource governance and environmental conflict across Asia and Africa, enriches our Indo-Pacific outlook.

Arunima Jha, our Professional Member, represents the growing community of practitioners who are the real engine of an industry forum like ours.

Our Alliance Members and Knowledge Partners bring the energy of India's legaltech sector into our community. Arshita Anand founded Vaquill.AI, a Startup India Award-winning platform offering anti-hallucination legal research, contract drafting, and due diligence automation for Indian legal practitioners. Rupal Mathur built Rhett.Technology, recognised as India's first full-stack AI legal company and recently featured on DD News Rajasthan. Ishita Jindal, co-founder of WebNyay, is pioneering a generative AI platform for online dispute resolution in India. Gazal Arora, Associate Researcher at the CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition (CUTS-CIRC is a Knowledge Partner to ISAIL), works at the intersection of competition law, digital markets, and AI governance, areas central to ISAIL's policy conversations.

To each of these women, and to every woman across the broader ISAIL community, thank you. Your presence, your voice, and your work remind us why this mission matters.