Sajan Venniyoor was a college lecturer before working as a radio broadcaster in AIR for 15 years. He has worked in Delhi, Goa and the Andaman Islands. He is currently with Doordarshan where he works in the Narrowcasting (Community TV) Division. Since the late 90s, Sajan has been promoting community media and is a freelance contributor to various websites, commenting on contemporary issues, especially the link between culture and politics.

Prakash Iyer has worked in the field of education for 6 years through his work in Wipro’s education reform initiative – Wipro Applying Thought In Schools. In this period, he worked closely with different organizations across the country in interventions in mainstream schools. He currently teaches Philosophy of Education at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Prior to this he worked in the software industry for over a decade.

Nivedita Menon is faculty at the Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prior to this, she taught at Delhi University. She is the author of Seeing Like a Feminist (2012) ; Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004); and the editor of Gender and Politics in India (1999) and Sexualities (Women Unlimited, 2008).

Ayisha Abraham lives and works in Bangalore, as an installation artist and short filmmaker. She studied painting in India and the United States, before becoming an experimental filmmaker and installation artist. She works at the Srishti School of Art, Design, Technology, as a visual arts consultant and is a member of the BAR1 (Bengaluru Artists Residency). Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions and festivals.

One of the co-founders, Ekta treads between migration, public space, cultural resistance, gender & sexuality through her practice in media, arts and film making. She has worked as a community radio facilitator on production, research and creative programming since 2008. She curates film festivals at maraa.

Ekta is interested in using unused and unexpected spaces in the city for the arts. She continues her work on Behind the Tin Sheets, a film project conceptualised in 2009 on migration and cities. She has been preoccupied with the relationship between arts and resistance. She has a particular interest in ghosts. She keeps busy dreaming of a jeep, collecting toys, indulging in cinema, poetry, instruments and the realm of the unknown.

Anushi has a Masters degree in Media Governance from Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University. Earlier, she used to work as a television journalist and producer with a news channel. Currently, she is working in community media sector as a facilitator and a researcher towards promoting participatory approach to communication. Her work is centered around community radio and media policy. She is blending her experience of mainstream media and her understanding of working with media practitioners at grass root level towards designing research-based, creative, and participative programming for community radio.

Anushi is interested in media and communications research and media policy studies. She further wants to explore the areas of community media, news media and public service broadcasting. She is also interested in studying the political economy of traditional art forms and performers. Apart from writing and telling stories; movies, books, and travel keeps her busy on her days off.

Nihal is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a background in Social Anthroplogy. His research has led him to the exploration of Dalit Christian identities in Mahrashtra which he plans too extend further. He is currently working on a project tracking the interplay of various identities around the country that come together within a train. When he is not thinking Social Anthropology his mind is usually focussed on food.

Srilatha Kamath is a chartered accountant with 20 years of experience in accounts and auditing. She works for various companies and organizations and manages their finances. She’s been working with maraa since 2009 as an accountant and financial advisor. Srilatha likes to travel and spend time with her daughter.

Ram has a Masters degree in Media and Communications for Development from the London School of Economics. From 2004-2007, he worked as Media Head in a Bangalore based media advocacy group, VOICES. He co-founded Maraa in early 2008, and has consulted with a wide range of donors and policy think tanks on media and communications research, policy, and training. He has previously served as the Vice President of the Community Radio Forum of India and is currently a board member of the Asia Pacific region, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-AP).

Ram is interested in policy and research around media and communication. Policy interests include community radio; increasing access to telecommunication and broadband internet; spectrum and frequency management and digitalisation of media and communication. Research interests include media anthropology (systems approach and media infrastructures), media reception and effects, daily media practice, mediation and political economy of the media. Other hobbies and interests have been sacrificed in lieu of bibliophilia.

Angarika is a graduate from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, with a degree in sociology. She has previously worked on developing music education programs aimed at creating a space for learning and interaction between young musicians from different socio-economic backgrounds. She has also been a peer facilitator on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

She is currently tracing the journeys of protest songs across the country. She is also attempting to create works that can raise questions around urban development and planning, and has an interest in writing on gender and sexuality.