Radha Gopalan is an environmental scientist with a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, Maharashtra. After an 18-year career in environmental consulting, she taught Environmental Science at the Rishi Valley Education Centre, Andhra Pradesh. Currently she works at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. She is also a member of the Kudali Intergenerational Learning Centre, Telangana.