Ruby Hembrom
Ruby Hembrom is an Adivasi cultural practitioner, writer, documentarian, and publisher. Her work addresses and challenges issues of non-representation, suppression, and appropriation of Indigenous cultures.
She is the founder and director of adivaani (the first voices), a non-profit platform for indigenous expression and assertion. Ruby has written three books for children, including two on the Santal creation story, as well as the prize-winning Disaibon Hul (Let’s remember the rebellion), on the Santal uprising of 1855 against the oppressive forces of Indian landlords and the British empire. Her advocacy work spills into other allied areas of campaigning and movement building for Adivasis. She is currently a PhD Candidate, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.
