Our Team

Ekta Mittal is a graduate from a Social Communication Media Course in Mumbai. She joined VOICES, a media advocacy group in Bangalore to bring out a publication on Community Media and stuck on there a little more than two years. She had the opportunity to get hands on experience with community radio, video and theatre, both in Bangalore and rural Karnataka. She is one of the founding members of Masrah , an eight year old theatre group. She is one of the founding members of Maraa and works here full time. Studying art, media and culture, meeting people, writing and photography are her keen interests.

Ram has background in IT and Media Studies. Learnt community media in VOICES, B’lore based advocacy group. Currently working on research and policy advocacy on white space, digitization, mobile telephony, spectrum allocation, community radio and internet access/infrastructure. Interested in media law and public policy making.

Monica James is a writer, media practitioner and researcher. She has a background in English literature, and she studied Social Communications Media at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai. Her current work is centered around community radio, media policy, spectrum reform, creative practices in times of conflict and urban transformation.

Kartikeya is a recent graduate of the Information Science and Technology program at Penn State. Previously, he completed a M.S. in Information Systems and Operations Management from the University of Florida, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy. His current interests lie in the domains of ICTs for development, development policy and narrative studies.