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).

Sana Bansal is a Bangalore-based illustrator, drawing odd humans, odd animals and everything in between. Her work is often influenced by folktales and magic realism. She loves working with print and occasionally brings out self-published zines and comics.

Ambika Aiyadurai is an anthropologist of wildlife conservation with a special interest in human-animal relations and communitybased conservation projects in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Ambika is an Assistant Professor (Anthropology) in Indian Institute of Technology – Gandhinagar.

Roshini Pochont After realising that her love for words and images could converge in illustration, Roshini made the jump from literature and journalism to study graphic design at the National Institute of Design. She is an illustrator and visual designer with a love for picture books, beautiful imagery, vintage ephemera, and all things handmade.

Ipsa Jain is a scientist turned science communicator. She makes images, zines and books about science and society. She experiments with paper, data, education, and communities.

Anusha Shankar is a National Geographic Explorer and a Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, New York, she studied how American and Ecuadorian hummingbirds manage their limited energy.

Rohan Dahotre is a wildlife illustrator based out in Pune. He loves illustrating animals, birds, and all things wild, contributing to the cause of wildlife awareness, conservation, and welfare.

Ladyfingers Co. is a communication design studio with a fun and sensitive approach, based in Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata. At their core, they believe in making communication relevant to context and culture.

Radhika Gupta has a Master’s in Social Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development from the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She is interested in science communications and dialogue-based multi-stakeholder engagement

Prabha Mallya draws creatures, chaos, and curious things. Her work includes The Wildings, Beastly Tales, The Jungle Books, and stories in comics anthologies.

Ishika Ramakrishna is a researcher, blogger, podcaster and dancer interested in primates, people and all the stories they have to offer. Outside of her love for all-things-monkey, she is also passionate about science communication and nature education.

Viplov Singh is a visual artist based out of New Delhi, creating stories and ideas in illustration and animation. His collaborators include Google, Red-bull, Giphy, Chronicle and Penguin books to name a few.

Mayukh Dey is an ecologist and a field recordist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. His research focuses on studying the behaviour of aquatic animals using sound

Tara Sunil Thomas is an illustrator/ animator from Kerala who was based in Brooklyn. She is known for her work in NGOs supporting causes like environmental conservation, animal conservation and education for children.

Shawn Dsouza is a researcher at Dakshin Foundation with interest ranging from marine ecology to marine resource
management.

Matthew Creasey is a biologist and science writer. He currently works for the wildlife conservation charity WildTeam.

Kalyani Ganapathy is a children’s books illustrator. She lives in South India and enjoys observing nature. You can see more of her work at www.kalyaniganapathy.com

Caitlin Kight is an educator, communicator, and scientist. She is the author of the natural history book Flamingo and tweets as @specialagentCK.

Akshaya Zachariah is an illustrator by profession, who believes in making a difference with the little time she has on this planet. Learning about nature, right from a young age, has opened doors for her to utilise her knowledge and translate that into illustrations to educate everyone around, including herself.

Kristin Hultgren studies phylogenetics and evolution of crabs and shrimps. She is a faculty member at Seattle University.

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.