Pinky Chandran is an independent researcher and a freelance journalist. She tracks policy and legal developments on issues related to waste management and its intersections. Garbage inspires her to write poetry and she runs her own blog wasteframes.com. She is the founding member of the Solid Waste Management Roundtable (SWMRT); a Trustee at Hasiru Dala and a Board Member of SMART, an NGO that runs Radio Mewat. She is a dog lover and a pet parent.