Marianne Manuel is the Assistant Director at Dakshin Foundation and a Junior Editor at Current Conservation. Her work with Dakshin entails improving coastal governance, supporting fishworker networks and studying the impacts of coastal laws and policies on traditional fishing communities. She works closely with fishworker unions and environmental organisations to carry out training and skill-sharing on coastal governance mechanisms. Her twitter handle is @mariannemanuel8 but be warned she doesn’t tweet very regularly. When not at work, you can find her pestering her cat Sula or obsessing over the plants in her garden.