Satya is a transman, gender activist, homemaker, and a cinematographer from India. He is a graduate from India’s National Film School, the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII). In the late 1990s he started the Indian trans* (and now intersex-inclusive) network, Sampoorna. As part of Sampoorna, Satya led the first trans healthcare meet in India in 2010, to the more recent first south asian trans masculine, intersex & intergender meet in 2014. Since 2010, Satya has been an elected member of the India Task Force of the South Asian Human Rights Association for Marginalised Genders & Sexualities (SAHRA), where he is working to mobilize & network across communities and build documentation.