Aishwarya Mohanty is an independent journalist based in Odisha, and reports on the often overlapping themes of gender, human rights, climate change and environment.

Amoolya Rajappa is a Bengaluru-based independent journalist and reports on labour, internal migration, climate change and displacement in India.

Namrata Raju is an independent labour and public policy researcher. Most recently, she was the Acting Head of Programme, India Director and Head of Research at Equidem, an international labour rights organisation. Over her four years at Equidem, Namrata worked with the two other members of the senior management team to build up the organisation from a small start-up into an internationally known labour rights non-profit of considerable repute. Of her work, the most known published research is the two-year investigation she led at Equidem into the exploitation of migrant workers at the FIFA-2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar. Namrata also worked closely with a small coalition of rights organisations to develop the first concerted labour and migrant rights campaign to be held on the Arab Gulf in contemporary history. With fifteen years of research experience, Namrata has worked on a range of labour migration and general labour issues, including but not limited to, recruitment; remittances; human trafficking; the future of work; informality; post-conflict livelihoods; and financial inclusion. Namrata also set up the first in-house consumer research unit in banking in the Gulf state of Oman (Bank Dhofar), the country of her residence for almost two decades. She has worked closely with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and worked towards the establishment of an internal Labour Migration Unit with the ILO-Country Office, Sri Lanka and the Maldives when she was a summer fellow at Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Programme (WAPP) in 2017, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights the same year. Namrata has been a research advisor across an array of sectors in the MENA region, including with various government departments in the GCC and banking and financial institutions. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University (2018), Masters of Economics from University of Warwick, UK (2008), and a Bachelors of Economics from Stella Maris College, India (2006).

Rishabh Shrivastava is a researcher and writer working on issues of law, policy and development

Tanmoy Bhaduri is a Delhi-based development communication specialist. He is an award winning journalist and multimedia storyteller who focuses on social, cultural and environmental issues.

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar is an environment and science journalist based in Mumbai, India. She has worked across print, magazine, and online media for over two decades, including at the Christian Science Monitor and The Times of India. Her work has also appeared in Science, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, and other publications.