Janet Mays Carpenter is a graduate student in the AIP programme at Miami University and will graduate in December with a MA in Biology. She has a B.S. in Environmental Health from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Jobin Varghese is a PhD scholar at IISER-Tirupati, figuring out the ‘hows’ and ‘wheres’ of bird movements in Western Ghats. He illustrates to preserve his sanity.

Pratim Roy is one of the founder directors of Keystone Foundation, and is trained in ecology and environmental
diplomacy. He is interested in bees, water, wetlands, advocacy, and the politics of environmental change. His vision of a collaboration with Cornell University has resulted in the Nilgiris Field Learning Center.

Snehlata Nath is one of the founder directors of Keystone Foundation and is trained in development economics. Her interests are in non-timber forest products, agrobiodiversity, indigenous people’s issues, and community well-being. She works with several field based organisations across South and South East Asia on issues of forest-based livelihoods.

Rebecca Stolzfus is President, Goshen College, and ProfessorEmerita, Nutritional Sciences and Global Health, Cornell University

Andrew Willford is Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. His research has focused on ethnic identity, the politics of development, and mental health in Malaysia and India. His  publications include Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations (2014)

Anita Varghese is deputy-director at Keystone Foundation and is trained in forest ecology. Her interests are in plant ecology, sustainable harvesting of forest products, endangered species, traditional ecological knowledge and forest management.

Neema Kudva is an urban planner, architect and educator based at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Her research addresses community-based planning, small city urbanisation, and pedagogical experiments around citizenship and engagement. She is the current Faculty Lead for the NFLC.

Steven Wolf teaches and conducts research on political economy of environment at Cornell University. Together with his Finnish wife he is raising two kids and working hard to keep one eye on socioecological problems and the other one on opportunities for enchantment.

Antara Bhargava is a Graphic, UI/UX Designer & Illustrator, Antara Bhargava graduated in Visual Communication and Strategic Branding from Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, she is now the senior designer at Studio Eksaat and also manages web, graphic, illustration projects on the side.

Seshadri K.S. recently completed his PhD from the National University of Singapore. He is currently the Research Director at the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station in India.

Sreeja Basu is a designer and illustrator based in Kolkata. She has studied art and design in Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore and liberal arts at the Young India Fellowship, Ashoka University, Sonipat. Her interest is in
child safety and development, gender and sexuality, and education and play.

Talia Nicole Tamason has studied and participated in conservation research in Mexico, Australia, Costa Rica, Namibia
and Thailand. She currently resides in Chicago, IL as an educator

Vidyasagar Saple is a graphic designer and visual artist based in Mumbai. His dual life allows him to work with a variety of creative fields and constantly explore different mediums. Recent projects include an animated short film for World Monument Fund, branding for a car company and a wall mural.

Maanvi Kapur is a visual artist, and has been practicing illustration ranging from editorials to murals professionally for almost a decade. She has worked for brands like New York Magazine, Netflix India, BBC Media, Amazon, to name a few.

Vrushal Pendharkar is a science freelancer. He sometimes writes about food and culture. When not doing that he likes to bird and bake.

Upasana is an illustrator from Kolkata who believes in creating greater representation of brown women, queer and trans people in their work. Apart from illustrating they organise an LGBTQ art space in Kolkata.

Hitesh Sonar is an illustrator and graphic artist from Mumbai. He has worked on various projects from book illustrations, magazines, to editorial illustrations and animation backgrounds.

Ravi Jambhekar is a post-doctorate researcher studying urban ecology at Azim Premji Uiversity, Bangalore. When
he isn’t chasing butterflies in the forests, he dabbles as an artist, traveller, photographer and Ultimate Frisbee player.
He posts as @ravijambhekar on Instagram.

Kartel Shockington is a failed comic book creation with special powers of rapid hair loss. He sometimes appears as Kartik Shanker, and at other times as Dan Brockington.

Kartik Shanker is at Indian Institute of Science & Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, India. Email: kshanker@gmail.com

Daniel Brockington is at University of Sheffield, UK. Email:d.brockington@sheffield.ac.uk.

Amit Kaikini is a freelance illustrator, with a decade of experience in digital advertising. He loves to explore Sci-Fi & Horror genres, with an inclination towards nature & a desire for surreal storytelling, he is working towards selfpublishing his own comics in the near future.

Sheena Deviah by day, works as an art director at a children’s book publisher and by night she enjoys working with her hands while surrounded by her three rowdy cats. She loves the company of messy art supplies and is constantly fascinated by nature, both inside and outside.

Neha Sinha is with the Bombay Natural History Society. Views expressed are personal. She has a chapter in the newly
published, ‘Nature Conservation in the New Economy’, ed Ghazala Shahabuddin and K Sivaramakrishnan.

Shriya Datye is a design student, interested in documenting and reflecting on the natural and human world around her, through illustration. She especially enjoys mixing analog materials with digital editing- working primarily with ink and pencil and digitally colouring and manipulating these artworks and images.

Emmalina Glinskis is an environmental researcher and journalist from Brooklyn, New York City. She is interested in the
nexus of ecology, agriculture, and urbanization through geospatial analysis and sustainable planning practices. She completed a Fulbright research grant with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & Environment in the Western Ghats, Karnataka.

Adwait Pawar is an illustrator based in Bangalore who lives with his three cats and aspires to their sense of detachment. He has been experimenting with different styles of illustration recently and is quite enjoying himself.

Rahael Mathews is an undergraduate student of art and design based on Bangalore with a keen interest in sustainable
practices. She enjoys making conceptual art rooted in abstraction and can usually be found with her head stuck in the
world of books.

Jennifer Robertson works as a big cat keeper at the Philadelphia Zoo. She completed this project as part of her
graduate work in the Global Field Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. (Contact info: rober162@miamioh.edu;
Robertson.Jennifer@phillyzoo.org).