Balika Das
Balika Das was born in Gomai in West Bengal, India. Her family arranged her marriage when she was eleven years old, and three years later a trafficker sold her to a brothel in Kolkata's red-light district, where she worked for twenty-three years. In 2014, she began working as an artisan at The Loyal Workshop. Das now lives in the suburb of Khidirpur, in Kolkata.