Keya Lall is an illustrator who finds her inspiration in creatures both real and imagined. She likes to experiment with mediums, from digital to traditional.

Mahima Jaini is the Marine Research Officer at the Andaman Nicobar Environment Team (ANET). ANET is a research and education center, located in India’s Andaman Islands, co-managed by the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) and Dakshin Foundation.

Tanvi Vaidyanathan is a researcher based out of Canada, working in the marine conservation space. Specifically, she
studies species that are incidentally caught in fishing gear, focusing on seahorses in the Indian subcontinent.

Vikas Nairi has been a dive instructor since 2003, and has loved every moment of being in the water till date. Photography was only to make that last out of water too.

Adira Andlay is an illustrator who works with hand-done mixed media. She explores visual narratives as a means of sharing perspectives and has an affinity for making watercolour paintings of flora-fauna. Her area of practice is in the field of Social and Communication Design.

Ankit Kapoor is an Illustrator and Animator who graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology and currently freelances out of Delhi/ Chandigarh.

Aditi Patil is a Political Economy Analyst-Illegal Wildlife Trade at Wildlife Conservation Society. She often wonders if she was born into the wrong species.

Upasana Agarwal is an illustrator based out of Kolkata. When they’re not drawing they organise a LGBTQ art space in the city. Their work is largely influenced by the nostalgia and history of urban landscapes and the fabric of life that ties them together. They are obsessed with tea, cats and plants.

Romulus Whitaker is an Indian of American origin who has a lifelong obsession with reptiles

Soundarya Raman is a freelance illustrator & graphic designer based in Coimbatore. Her style leans towards minimalism with vibrant colors and contextual details.

Bharti Dharapuram is a researcher studying marine biogeography at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Deepti Sharma is an animator, illustrator and chocolate milk connoisseur, currently based in Goa. She deeply cares about
sustainability and conservation, and love drawing plants, animals and imaginary creatures.

Ari Drummond is a conservationist, Wildlife Rescue Technician and an applicant for a PhD in Ecology.

Malvika Tewari is an illustrator and designer based out of Bangalore with a love for stories, food, and the
environment. She hopes to cross paths with a Slender Loris someday!

Shreyasi Sharma is a postgraduate in Literary Art Creative Writing from Ambedkar University Delhi.

Maanasa Ganesh is a designer and illustrator currently living in Tokyo. She loves traveling, studying new cultures, visiting museums, and looking for inspiration in nature.

Dina Rasquinha is a social ecologist and a communicator, currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. She enjoys a good cup of tea and a story

Hari Kumar is a freelance Graphic designer currently based out of Chennai.He has an interest in working on books
for children’s education and working with technologies like augmented and virtual reality solution.

Tanuja Ramani is an artist/illustrator exploring themes related to the interplay between our collective human behaviour as cultures and societies, and the natural world. She creates artwork for books, magazines, products, and packaging, as well as a collection of art prints and illustrated products.

Sonia Holmstrom who recently received her graduate degree from the University of Miami, Ohio, is an animal keeper in Alaska, and is a Red Panda Conservation Liaison for the Katie Adamson Conservation Fund.

Prajwal Acharya is an engineer turned self-taught artist. What started as a small hobby has now become his passion,
which made him quit his job and move to the hills. And now he spends his life just creating art.

Vikram Aditya currently works as a postdoctoral research associate at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the
Environment, Bengaluru, on a project focused on developing models for assessing the contribution of biodiversity to
agricultural productivity, food and nutritional security and livelihoods.

Sanika Deshpande loves to create and illustrate visual stories. The lesser the text, the better! She is always on a lookout for discarded objects which she transforms into equally useless but fun art pieces.

Dincy Mariyam is a doctoral student at CWS, Bengaluru. Her weekdays pass in a blur of research in the concrete jungle, she tries to spend her weekends escaping to the real jungles with her trusty binoculars.

Amiya Hisham is an architect and writer based in Trivandrum, Kerala with interests in design, language, and nature. At the moment she is gardening her way through life, literally and figuratively.

Veda Thozhur Kolleri works with drawing, video, writing and found material to understand the contexts in which she lives. Her preoccupations center on mortality and the impending sense of loss that is inherent to having a relationship with the world around us.