Moumita Bhowmick
Facilitator, Founational Learning
Facilitator, Founational Learning
Moumita is a teacher at the after-school learning programme conducted by Dakshin Foundation under the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools initiative. She has been tutoring school students from the Wandoor community for several years and is an active member of the local community. She enjoys baking and her cakes are famous among Wandoor residents.
Madhuri Mondal
Programme Officer, Community Well-being and Environment
Programme Officer, Community Well-being and Environment
Growing up in the Andamans and living close to the rainforest and coastal ecosystems, Madhuri has always been fascinated by them. She gave up her career as a software engineer to be close to nature again and to work towards environmental sustainability. During her course with TISS, she became interested in studying human-nature interactions and socio-ecological systems. For her Master’s dissertation, she studied the resource dependence and factors influencing community’s perceptions towards Mahatma Gandhi marine national park in South Andaman. She is interested in analyzing the role of institutions in managing resources in the globalizing world. Her other interests are birding, documenting biodiversity and environmental education. At Dakshin, She works with the Community Wellbeing and Environment Programme which aims to initiate interventions to improve both community health and environmental health in the fishing communities of Odisha and Andamans. The goal of the programme is to empower the coastal communities, strengthen the community institutions and in the long-term engage with them in coastal and marine resource management.
Apolonia Topno
Facilitator, Founational Learning
Facilitator, Founational Learning
Aplonia is a teacher at the after-school learning programme conducted by Dakshin Foundation under the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools initiative. She holds a Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) and has had experience in the domain of school-support and curricular training for students of primary and upper-primary school. She enjoys learning new things and is particularly talented at picking up new languages.
Tanmay Wagh
Project Coordinator, LTEO
Project Coordinator, LTEO
Tanmay has been based out of the Andaman Islands since 2013, and in the process, has had an opportunity to be a part of various projects related to coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses and dugongs, elasmobranch fisheries and leatherback turtles. His broad research interests lie in understanding the relationship between conservation, exploitation and sustainable use of marine resources, particularly in coral reef ecosystems. Presently, he is working as the Programme Manager of the Marine Programme as part of the Long Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) programme of the MOEFCC. The broad goal of this project is to understand the long-term impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems and taxa in the Andaman Islands. Along with this, he is also carrying out research on profiling small-scale reef fisheries in the islands.