Shruti Sunderraman is a journalist, writer, and editor who has been working with culture, gender, and scientific commentary. Conservation has made a place in her life in different ways – sometimes, in how she invokes the ecology of living into her work, and many times, in how she engages with the world. At Current Conservation, she tries to find the most effective way to communicate the urgency of science and all that lives. To Shruti, personal is political, which is why she hugs trees. She lives in Bangalore in her garden, with her cat.