Labonie Roy Art and Design Editor, Current Conservation, 2025 -
I’m a designer, illustrator, and artist, working towards creating engaging learning resources for children and adults. Growing up, I spent most of my time peering among plants for bugs, collecting leaves, petting every passing dog, and devouring nature books and documentaries. Not much has changed, except that I now share my passion with others through my work, whether it’s creating classroom tools or writing children’s books about the natural world. My background in Sociology & Anthropology paired with experience as a learning resource creator helps me weave together stories that celebrate curiosity, representation, and our connection to nature.
Through my work, I hope to bring out the child in everyone—the child that asks way too many questions and won’t rest until they’ve figured out “why!”. As Managing Editor of Art and Design at Current Conservation, I look forward to building on CC’s incredible foundation of science communication through art, and exploring how art, design, and conservation can come together to create magic. When I’m not at my desk, you can find me watching cartoons or exploring the outdoors with my dog.
Devathi Parashuram Executive Editor, Current Conservation, 2021 -
After completing an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Applied Ecology & Conservation (2011–13), I had the privilege of doing research in diverse places such as the Western Ghats and the Western Himalayas in India, and the neotropical forests of the West Indies. A turning point in my career was when, in 2016, I started managing a community-based conservation program in Arunachal Pradesh. Working on the ground with multiple stakeholders to reduce threats to endangered species challenged my views of conservation up until then. It eventually led me to do the MPhil in Conservation Leadership (2019–20) at the University of Cambridge. In my current role as Executive Editor, I aim to bring everything that I have learnt over the years together with my passion for conservation and communication to CC.
My alternate choice of career would definitely be as a professional Ultimate frisbee player. When I am not working or thinking about frisbee, I like to dive into fantasy and science-fiction books. The Kindle is my best friend.
Greta Ann Sam Managing Editor, Current Conservation, 2019 -
As I was growing up, the stories and the knowledge around land, plants, and trees were common conversation topics in the family and has definitely helped me form an interest towards the environment and its conservation. My time at Current Conservation has definitely helped me understand and learn more about conservation and it has now become a growing passion. I enjoy exploring the wildlife around me by documenting them through photographs.
Shivangi Pant Art and Design Editor, Current Conservation, 2022 - 2024
As a visual communicator and storyteller, I have been working towards disseminating information and stories sensitively. Currently, I am exploring what art can do for nature conservation. While doing my postgraduate degree in design, I worked on effectively combining my skills in art and design with my growing interest in conservation to evoke ecological consciousness towards the natural world through the medium of performance art and theatre. Since then, I have dedicated my career towards working at the intersection of art and conservation.
As Managing Editor (Art and design) at Current Conservation, I have been actively looking for new and better tools for science communication. One of the most fun projects for me at CC is to do layouts for the print magazine and find interesting ways of integrating content and illustrations. I have a passion for layouts, hierarchy and composition. When I am not working, you will find me attending a play reading session or a performance workshop in the city.
Manini Bansal Design and Managing Editor, Current Conservation, 2017 - 2022
I can trace my passion for expressing things visually to my childhood. From a young age, I was inclined towards photography, nature, and beauty as it is found in the everyday. Studying at Srishti and my experience while working as a photographer and designer further honed my skills. I started learning and loving the art of visual communication. I think it is safe to say that at any given day I’d rather draw a thing than spell it.
My role at Dakshin as the Art Director and Managing Editor of Current Conservation allows me to effectively combine my design and visual communication skills with my passion for the natural world and its conservation. Design for change is something I truly believe in, as I feel that information, when communicated easily and creatively, can make a huge difference.
Shruti Sunderraman Executive Editor, Current Conservation, 2020 - 2021
As a journalist, writer, and editor working in social commentary, women’s health, culture, and climate and development for 10 years (and counting), I lead newsrooms and publications towards salubrious models of content management through a feminist lens. I believe in gathering skill sets and wearing different work jackets. Places I’ve had the privilege to work with include The Swaddle, The Guardian, The Ladies Finger, The Daily Net, The Hindu among others.
My time at Current Conservation as its Executive Editor between 2019 and 2020 was among the most challenging and nourishing in my career. Working with CC gave me lessons in collaborative leadership and invaluable insight into the complex world of ecology-based research. It also left me with a fierce love for Excel sheets, along with gratitude for a wildly competent, supportive team. I currently help content and news workspaces in India move towards a hybrid, health-friendly environment. When I’m not working on communications projects for digital justice advocacy, I dream of selling ramen (yes, really). For more of what I do: www.shrutisunderraman.com.
Martina Anandam Managing Editor, Current Conservation, 2016 - 2017
When Kartik called me in 2016 to ask if I would consider working for Current Conservation as Managing Editor, there was only one answer: yes! My life, until then, was studying langur monkeys in the high-altitude Himalayas and working with farmers to understand human-langur relationships. As a self-professed mountain-junkie, my biggest concern—more than missing the mountains, of course—was settling into the rather rambunctious Bengaluru and the upcoming managerial assignment.
A year of adventures followed, where I learned the art of magazine production and worked with a talent of writers and artists who added content and illustrations to our magazine. Together, we explored the conservation themes less travelled and it was worth every minute invested and more. At present, I am finishing up a PhD on Himalayan Langur taxonomy- craniometry and skin analyses of Semnopithecus spp and Trachypithecus spp and biogeography, from Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. As I look forward to joining Dakshin again, I fondly remember my CC experience and am incredibly proud of what it has achieved over recent years.
Suneha Mohanty Managing Editor, Current Conservation, 2012 - 2016
In 2012, I met Nandini Rajamani, then editor of Current Conservation , at a conference and ended up as the magazine’s managing editor. This came as a welcome break from spending hours in 4 degree celsius laboratories, extracting proteins and trying to figure out their structures. Apart from managerial duties, I learnt the design skills to effectively convey stories using interplay of words and pictures. The following years opened a whole new world of science communication that involved both writing and visuals. What was meant to be a stop gap between Masters in the Sciences and PhD, became a pathway to an alternate career in science.
For the last few years, I have been working as a freelancer in science writing, editorial designs and illustrations. When I am not doing any of those things, I take off to far away lands or enjoy the company of books and coffee at home.