Our endeavour is to constantly interact and learn from the best in the industry and beyond. Here are some of the impact leaders, with whom we often collaborate, jam with for ideas and insights on various projects.
Mansi Sharma
Mansi Sharma is an education developer and trainer working at the Department of Education Policy at Ghent University. She currently develops interactive onsite and digital learning material around marquee themes such as challenge-based education, diversity, and multiculturalism for the ENLIGHT European university network. As part of the ENLIGHT’s ‘Teaching and Learning Lab’, she also documents the network’s educational best practices for wider dissemination. In 2022, in collaboration with colleagues from ENLIGHT’s “educational taskforce”, she worked on synchronous and asynchronous challenge-based education trainings.As part of her responsibilities with the department of education policy, she takes newly appointed professorial staff through learning tracks mandated by the University’s professionalisation initiatives. A journalist (Delhi University, India) and educational researcher (KU, Leuven, Belgium) by training, her other academic and professional interests include education for sustainable development, life-skills & career education, and international cooperation.
Krishna Daksh
Krishna Daksh is a graphic designer, animator and video editor with a Bachelors in Video Film Design from Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune. In a short span of five years, he has designed films, animations and graphic campaigns for a number of international clients, government organisations and agencies. He has a love for poetry, travel, cinema and storytelling in all forms.
Bhashwati Sengupta
Bhaswati Sengupta is a Development and Education Consultant. A larger part of her work has been in the area of planning and executing education initiatives by various kinds of development and research organisations including Mahila Samakhya, Action Aid, Timbaktu Collective and projects with the World Bank. She has over three decades of experience in working with youth at risk from marginal communities on communication, creative and critical skills- aspects of which may be seen under the lens of Social and Emotional Learning today. She has conducted interactive communication workshops with Agriculture Scientists and Food Security activists in Andhara Pradesh and Telangana.
As Co-Director of Hyderabad Urban Lab, she is in charge of mentoring interns and researchers, preparing interactive learning material for communities and designing curriculum for trainings and other learning programme for multiple learner groups which include mid level officials and community workers. She also translates research studies into easily comprehensible audio and visual material.
Swastika Mehta
Swastika Mehta has been working with the audio-visual medium for the past 15 years, understanding and adapting the evolution of the medium from analog to digital, from meditative long formats to short crisp one-minuters that need to click. With every shoot, interview and edit, her focus remains on brining out the most authentic story possible with all the strength that the visual medium has to offer. She has worked with organizations like NDTV, India Today and Times Network in the space of news, and production houses like Miditech Pvt Ltd. and Aamir Khan Productions for documentaries and television series ( including the much lauded series Satyamev Jayate). She is currently working as a senior producer at Newsclick and has conceptualized and guided several studio and field based shows; designing formats for interviews and reportage. She has a keen sense of storytelling and her drive remains to find the human in any given context whether it be governance, conflict, shaping of policies or habitats.
Manu Moudgil
Manu Moudgil is an independent journalist and researcher for last 17 years with focus on environment, social justice and governance. He has travelled extensively and reported from 10 of the 15 major agro-climatic zones of India. In 2011, he founded GOI Monitor, a web magazine on policy issues and sustainable development.
He has done research work with Govt of India, The Media Foundation, Foundation for Ecological Security and India Rivers’ Forum besides volunteering with several non-profit organisations working in the fields as varied as natural farming, transparency in governance, disability rights and mental health.
He has also been training journalists and media students on data and multimedia journalism, right to information and climate crisis. Manu has been awarded several fellowships including the Govt of India’s Right To Information Fellowship 2012, TDU-Nature India Biodiversity Fellowship 2017, Water Aid Fellowship 2019, Bhoomi Senior Fellowship 2020 besides the CMS Vatavaran Young Environment Journalist Award in 2015.
He has done masters in mass communication, a short diploma on environmental law from WWF-India and IGNOU and a certificate course on field botany from BNHS.