Anima is a Senior Associate at C-LOP. Prior to this, she worked for Kudumbashree National Resource Organisation, an institution recognised by the Ministry of Rural Development, (Government of India) in the domain of Poverty Eradication, Institution Building and Livelihoods through Entrepreneurship among rural community women. In her initial years she worked in the state of Jharkhand for implementing livelihood and entrepreneurship projects at the grassroots level after which for three years she worked on the capacity building of stakeholders for 18 states. She has completed her graduation in the subject of Sociology and post graduation in Social work in Livelihoods and Social Entrepreneurship from Asutosh College (Calcutta University) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai respectively.