Mappilassery Chavara Josephine (3 August 1948 â 10 April 2022) was an Indian activist and politician. She served as the Chairperson of Kerala Women's Commission from 25 May 2017 to 25 June 2021. She was a central committee member of the CPI(M) and she was the candidate of CPI(M) for the 2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election from the former Mattancherry constituency. Josephine died suddenly from a heart attack on 10 April 2022, at the age of 73, while attending the Communist Party Congress in Kannur.