Global Voices (GV) author, with particular interest in Rising Voices, GV Odia editor, educator and free software evangelist, originally from Odisha and based in Bangalore, India. Mozillian, long time Wikimedian, OpenGLAM Working group member and ambassador for India and currently at the Centre for Internet and Society‘s Access To Knowledge program. Works on building partnerships with GLAM institutions, universities, language research organizations, government departments and individuals for bringing more scholarly and encyclopedic content on language, culture, and history under free licenses. Learning interests in building low-cost models for academic education programs. Voiced in many language related conferences, policy and implementation discourses around open knowledge and open source.