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Ishika Ramakrishna

Ishika Ramakrishna is a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Wildlife Studies and an alumnus of the National Centre for Biological Sciences. Her academic and applied interests lie in an interdisciplinary space across ethnoprimatology, social sciences, ethology, and science communication. She is currently studying the fascinating relationships between indigenous communities and other primates in India. She is a part of collaborative groups like Café Oikos, the Association of Indian Primatologists, Queer Wildlifers Circle, CEASE, and the Student Conference on Conservation Science, Bengaluru. She also hosts a podcast, ‘The Thing About Wildlife’, and has authored three nature-themed children’s books.