Neelam has over 20 years of experience in human rights with specialized knowledge in marginalized women and children, and the rights of modern days slavery survivors. She is a feminist researcher, and an anti-slavery professional skilled in designing, managing anti-slavery programs, and managing multi-donor grants in multi-cultural settings. Neelam worked as a Country Representative in Nepal to pioneer anti-slavery organizations, Free the Salves (FTS)(2011-1017), and Anti-Slavery International (2018-2022). She also worked with UN agencies in Nepal (UNDP and UNMIN) during the conflict era.

She was a key team member in developing anti-trafficking training modules in Free the Slaves which are implemented across the program-implementing countries. She is also a key team member in developing the ‘community maturity toolkit’, an instrument measuring community resilience to slavery and trafficking in Nepal, India, and other FTS program countries. Neelam is a trainer/facilitator and had conducted several training, workshops, and seminars on leadership, anti-trafficking, capacity building, and gender and inclusion for community and political leaders, survivors, officials,  and program-implementing partners in Nepal and India.