Manshi is an environmental justice activist and researcher. Since 1998, she has been associated with several organisations, alliances and campaigns on issues of land, water and forest rights. She worked in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand for close to five years on community forest governance and also issues of gender justice as part of a women’s collective. She has extensively documented and written on political ecology and economy of neoliberal ‘development’ policies, especially in the Himalayan region. In Himachal Pradesh, in 2010, she co-founded an autonomous collective called Himdhara to lend support and solidarity to community movements to protect their livelihoods and landscapes. She actively contributed with conceptualizing, designing and facilitating programs at Sambhaavnaa during our initial years. She is now a resource person for few of our workshops.