Michael Adams is an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Rachael Knight is the Senior Advisor for Land at Namati. She has been working to document and protect community land rights since 1998 when, researching the Zimbabwean land invasions, she understood that strong land rights are the basis of thriving, prosperous, ecologically-flourishing communities.

Priyanka Hari Haran is currently a research assistant at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
(ATREE). This piece draws on her master’s dissertation work with mixed-species flocks of birds in Kali Tiger Reserve

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.