Alana Golmei, General Secretary, North East Helpline, completed her Post Doctoral study under Northeast India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2011. She is one of the founding members of Northeast Support Centre and Helpline in New Delhi, which was launched in 2007 with the aim to prevent harassment and abuses meted out to women, the North East people and tribal communities in Delhi and NCR.