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LIVING ON the Edge
Outlook Traveller
|April - May 2023
National award-winning filmmaker Akanksha Sood tells Priyanka Kapoor about her Women of the Wild project and a life-changing experience
Akanksha Sood is a wildlife filmmaker and the director of On the Brink, a Hotstar series that documents rare and unknown species in the Indian wild. Akanksha is also the founder of the Women of the Wild project, a community-based initiative exploring untold stories of women working for science and nature in India. This project is a networking platform for women in botany, veterinary sciences, climate change policy and wildlife biology, among other fields.
Tell us about Women of the Wild. What motivated you to start this project?
Women of the Wild began around the pandemic. I’m an advisory council member for the Jackson Wild International Festival, and at that time, we were working on a plan to organise storytelling workshops for women in STEM. But I realized there wasn’t enough diversity of people in this field; this led me to discover new stories and faces in India. Women of the Wild eventually became a sort of
This story is from the April - May 2023 edition of Outlook Traveller.
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