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Sneha Priya Yanappa is a Senior Project Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, where she currently works on legal and institutional frameworks for urban heat resilience and climate governance. Her current work focuses on identifying legal and institutional solutions to the impacts of extreme heat across sectors including urban governance, public health, labour and education, with the aim of embedding climate resilience into laws and policies. Formerly the Team Lead for Vidhi Karnataka, she has advised the Government of Karnataka on legislative drafting and regulatory reforms across urban governance, climate change, environmental governance, education and rights-based policy. Her work examines how law, governance and institutional reform can make cities more equitable, liveable and sustainable. Her interests span climate change, urban governance, constitutional law, public international law and public policy. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a B.A. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.

Akhileshwari Reddy is a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi, Karnataka. Her work focuses on the protection of human rights and environment. At Vidhi she has worked on various projects including those on solid waste management, waste picker welfare, urban ground water management and human-wildlife conflict in India. She graduated with a B.A., L.LB (Hons.) degree from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS, Kolkata) in 2016. In 2017, she completed her Masters in Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the Marchant Foundation Scholarship and the LSE Master’s Award. Her articles on human rights issues in India have been published by various Journals. She also regularly contributes to the Deccan Herald, The Wire and Down to Earth. She is an avid reader and especially enjoys reading fantasy fiction.