Hemjyoti Medhi is Associate Professor of English at Tezpur University, India. She has coordinated a project under the 'Preserving Social Memory' Grant of the Sephis Programme, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, to create a digital archive of select mahila samitis' papers and oral histories in Assam. She is also a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust SOAS Visiting Fellowship and has several articles to her credit. Medhi has been working towards taking the mahila samiti stories to a larger audience through exhibitions, radio and television programmes, and a short documentary film 'Xeito Monot Assey' (That, I Remember).
