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Maitreya Prithwiraj Ghorpade is an independent environmental lawyer based in Pune, practising primarily before the National Green Tribunal, representing project-affected communities, farmers, and tribal and fishing groups.

Manya Singh is the founding director of Conservation indica, a conservation practitioner, artist and writer trained in conservation ecology. Her work sits at the intersection of science, society and community-led governance.

Aditi Patil is a nature conservationist and author of Patriarchy and the Pangolin, holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. She co-founded Conservation indica, a women-led, feminist conservation organisation two years ago.

Ishtayaq Rasool is an independent journalist based in Kashmir from the Dard-Shin community of Gurez Valley. His work focuses on borderlands, Indigenous communities, culture, environment, health, and travel, with a particular emphasis on underreported stories from the Himalayan region.

Sonal has over 16 years of experience as an investigative journalist and a long-form feature writer covering health, social development, politics and policy.

Sat Singh is an Independent Journalist based in Haryana's Rohtak. He specialises in reporting on agriculture, sports, gender, and rural.

Shreya is a journalist and researcher based in Delhi. Her work focuses on climate justice, labour rights, people’s movements and culture.

Amrita is a lawyer turned public-policy researcher, with over seven years of experience. Before joining LCW, she worked with the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and the Institute of Management in Government, Kerala. Her previous projects involved the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, rural-land use policies in Kerala, departmental efficiency of citizen-centric state departments in Kerala.

Shreya is a seasoned legal and policy expert working at the intersection of law, public health and climate change. At Nurtgraph LLP, she leads the firm’s portfolio on Indian and Global Health Law, Climate and Health, bringing deep expertise in legal research, legislative drafting, and rights-based policy change. Shreya holds a specialized LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown University, United States. Her work spans multiple domains in low and middle income countries including—legal and policy landscaping, system-level assessments of health systems, capacity assessments of civil society organizations and developing strategies for health systems strengthening. Her experience includes developing regulatory frameworks in India and supporting multisectoral partnerships to advance health equity and legal accountability.With a strong background in both domestic and international legal frameworks, Shreya brings a pragmatic, justice-oriented lens to advising governments, international organizations, and CSOs. She has previously worked at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator and O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law in the United States and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy in India. Her collaborators include multilateral organizations such as WHO SEARO, UN Women Chile and Special Olympics International.

Sukriti has formerly worked as a journalist at ThePrint, where she covered the urban beat and the railway ministry. She holds an undergraduate degree from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women and a postgraduate diploma from Asian College of Journalism.

Mahmodul Hassan is a research fellow at Land Conflict Watch. His works focus on the intersections of human rights, social justice, and policy issues with investigative approach.

Mrinali works as Advisor & Climate Research Lead, Land Conflict Watch. Her research focuses on issues of climate change and resource conflicts. She has studied issues around land and resource conflicts, working with journalists and researchers to conduct research around the land conflict database. She has also tracked and reported on international climate change negotiations since 2022.

Mohit M. Rao has been working as a writer, editor and researcher for 14 years. His work is focused on democratic institutions, environment, political data, labour and constitutional rights in India. He worked at The Hindu till 2019, and has been an independent researcher and writer since. His work has been published in Article-14, CNN, Economist and BBC.

Vasudha Varadarajan is the Creative Content Editor at Land Conflict Watch.

Kumar Sambhav Srivastava is an award-winning journalist, researcher and social entrepreneur who specializes in innovative research methods for accountability and equity-based reporting. He is the founder and director of Land Conflict Watch, a pioneering data research initiative that tracks land and environmental conflicts in India. He is also the founder and CEO of Nutgraph – Social Data Lab, a research and communication initiative that works with micro-level field data and translating it into evidence-based insights across themes like land and natural resources, energy, health and digital welfare. In the past, Sambhav served as India Research Lead for Princeton University’s Digital Witness Lab and was an AI Accountability Fellow with the Pulitzer Center. His work has been recognised with numerous accolades, including the National Award for Excellence in Journalism, the RedInk Award, and the Shriram Award for Financial Journalism. Land Conflict Watch has garnered international and national recognition, winning the World Summit Award and the Digital Empowerment Foundation’s e-Champion Award.