Lobsang Tenzing Kom
Lobsang Tenzing Kom is a researcher from Arunachal Pradesh with a strong interest in community livelihoods, ecotourism, and conservation in the Eastern Himalayas. His Master’s dissertation examined the impacts of ecotourism on local communities in Tawang.
He aims to work at the intersection of community engagement and conservation practice to support more inclusive and ecologically responsible development in mountain ecosystems.
Mampi Hazarika
Mampi is an early-career conservation practitioner with a background in Forestry and an interest in nature–culture relationships, especially within the Northeast Indian landscape, where she sees a rich diversity of perspectives, stories, and lived conservation experiences that remain largely under-explored. She enjoys writing and uses it as one of her key storytelling mediums.
She previously worked in the Central Indian landscape on mitigating human–wildlife conflict through community engagement, which shaped her understanding of how people relate to their environments across different contexts.
Preety Boro
Preety Boro is a young conservationist and filmmaker, currently a Nature–Culture Fellow with WCS-India and Canopy Collective, working at the intersection of conservation storytelling and community engagement. She has previously worked with WWF-India as a Field Research Assistant, completed the GreenHub Fellowship (2024–2025) where she made two documentary films with ATREE on habitat restoration and community resilience, and contributed to cultural mapping near Manas National Park through an internship with The Midway Journey. She also completed a Media Fellowship with Aaranyak and is currently volunteering with Wings of Florican, supporting Bengal Florican conservation through education, outreach, and field documentation.
Raagini Muddaiah
Raagini has spent the last few years working in the Kodagu landscape, largely studying amphibian communities in agroforests to understand their response to climate change. Her interests lie at the intersection of species distribution and management practices that are both environmentally sound and economically viable. She is passionate on encouraging people to notice and appreciate the indigenous species diversity around them.’