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Aarthi Sridhar is a founder trustee of Dakshin Foundation and heads its Communities and Resource Governance Programme. Her research interests cover a range of historical and contemporary socio-legal studies, with a focus on regulating resource use, environmental justice and democratic practices. She is one of the co-PIs of the core team.

Lakshmi Pradeep is an anthropologist of sea and coastal communities. She works on the intersections of species, science, and society with a focus on the Lakshadweep Islands of India.

Dr. Sayan Dey is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University, Bangalore. His areas of research interest are postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, creole studies, critical diversity studies, critical food studies, and many more.

Sindhu Nepolean is an independent researcher and a freelance journalist based out of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She is associating with research projects carried out by institutions like the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, etc. She is the recipient of a few reporting fellowships and actively covers issues around the environment, gender, education, and coastal communities.

Poushali Chatterjee is a Project Assistant with The Southern Collective and Dakshin Foundation. She is currently a postgraduate student in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Her research interests lie in the fields of Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology and Development Studies.