Pratima Joshi is one of the founding members of Shelter Associates (SA) and has been working in SA since its inception in 1993. She received an Aga Khan scholarship in 1986-87 and completed her Masters Degree in ‘Building Design for Developing Countries’ at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, London. In October 2005, the BBC identified her as one of the leading slum architects of India and did a feature on her for their ‘India Week” which was launched on their website. Pratima was featured under the 'Amazing Indian' in 2011 series by Times of India and won the HUDCO award for best practice under Sanitation in 2015.”