Mini Sukumar teaches Women’s Studies at the Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut since 2005. She has been actively involved with women’s movement in Kerala from the early 1990s and associated with ‘Sthree Padana Kendram’, the first women’s collective that raised cultural/social issues relating to the women’s question in Kerala. She was State Programme Director of Kerala Mahila Samakhya Society, a national women empowerment project. She contributes articles, book reviews, columns and presents television programs. She is a founder member of Women’s Imprint, a feminist publishing house. She is currently an expert member of State Planning Board of the Government of Kerala and the National General Secretary of Indian Association for Women’s Studies.