Breakthrough, the human rights organization she created, calls on people, particularly boys and men, to stop domestic violence wherever they see it. Every morning Mallika Dutt toys with the figurines on the windowsill in her East Harlem apartment “My windowsill has become this kind of enchanted garden [with] all these creatures and these animals and these elves and these fairies and these dancers,” she says. “I change the configurations every day, and I look at my little enchanted forest, and I think ‘This is what the world could look like. This is what we could be.’ ” It’s a rare moment of wistfulness, and Ms. Dutt waves it off. But it’s clear that working at the helm of Breakthrough, the human rights organization she created in 2000, even when there are much-deserved accolades for its innovative work on violence against women and girls, takes a toll.

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