Code Crimson: Content, Ops and Partnerships
Code Crimson is a non-profit working on menstrual health access for underserved communities across India. It started as four women who decided menstruation poverty wasn't someone else's problem to fix. Everything since has run on one belief: menstrual products and education are a right, not a privilege, and we close that gap wherever we find it.
At CC, I co-led 6 fundraisers and 15+ pad distribution drives, across India in government schools, shelters for survivors of SA and SH, and HIV+ communities, the kind of places most donation drives don't reach.
To date: 2,000+ lives touched.
Instagram Content
Owned the day-to-day content mix: memes and relatable moment reels that traveled, plus educational posts and carousels on periods and women's health.
Community Impact
Press Coverage
One of Code Crimson's distribution drives, a menstrual health awareness programme that gave 300 students free sanitary pads in Mangaluru, was picked up by local press.
Deccan Herald: 300 students receive free sanitary pads→
Times of India: 300 students receive sanitary pads→Paper on Menstrual Workplace Policy
I wrote a paper drawing on Code Crimson's community fieldwork, which was selected for the 6th India Public Policy Network Conference, where Code Crimson's president co-chaired the panel on menstrual care workplace policy.
- The gap: India's menstrual workplace policy is written for formal offices. It leaves out roughly 96 million women in the informal workforce (fields, construction sites, street vending), who have no policy protection at all.
- The evidence: Code Crimson's fieldwork (pad distribution drives, menstrual health workshops, stigma-reduction storytelling) shows that menstrual wellbeing is shaped long before someone reaches a workplace.
- The proposal: a three-pillar framework: equitable access and preparedness, infrastructure that fits where people actually work, and cultural change to dismantle stigma.