The Team

Aleksandra (Sasha) Sushko

holds an MA in Development Studies, majoring in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies, and specializing in Conflict and Peace. Her work takes an intersectional approach, bridging theory and practice, with a particular focus on water quality, access, and infrastructure, environmental justice, and collective well-being. 

Luisa Cortesi

(Ph.D. Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Yale University) is an environmental anthropologist who studies disasters, water, environmental knowledge, and social inequality. Currently at Cornell University, she is the Stanford H. Taylor postdoctoral fellow in Science and Technology Studies and Anthropology, and Atkinson Fellow of Sustainability. She will soon be an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. For the year 2020-2021, Luisa is also a Marie S. Curie Fellow and Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. Luisa loves teaching, experimenting in the kitchen, supporting causes of social justice, and trying a new sport. 

Hadi Ameer

is an M.A. student in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) within Erasmus University Rotterdam at The Hague, majoring in governance and development policy. His research interests include water politics and discourses, political geography, and countermapping.

Sarita Santoshini

is a journalist (in transition) and recently earned her Master’s in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has almost a decade of experience in researching and reporting about human rights and global development challenges, with a particular focus on gender and conflict-affected regions in South Asia and East Africa. A key aspect of this work has been to understand, analyze, and highlight structural inequalities, including the impact of laws, policies, and programs on marginalized communities.  

K.J. Joy

Founder Member and Senior Fellow at SOPPECOM (Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management), he also coordinates the Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India. For over 30 years, Joy has been an activist-researcher and published extensively on drought, participatory irrigation management, river-basin management, multi-stakeholder institutions, water ethics and people’s movements.

Alejandro Camargo

(Ph.D.,Geography, Syracuse University) is assistant professor of History and Social Sciences at the Universidad del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia. He is interested in the transformation of rural livelihoods and landscapes, water and land governance, and agrarian relations in a context of abrupt environmental change and uneven development, in particular in the floodplains of Northern Colombia.

Franz Krause

Franz Krause is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research on communal irrigation in the Philippines, life along a river in Finnish Lapland, flood memories in England, wetland uses in Estonia, and volatile transformations in the Mackenzie Delta in Arctic Canada