Kankana is deeply passionate about environmental conservation and brings a unique blend of legal insight and grassroots connection to her work. With 18 years in the development sector, she specializes in research and evidence-based policy advocacy, using the legal landscape as a tool for advancing environmental protection and social justice.

Her work is grounded in a field-based approach—one that values connection with both nature and communities. Kankana thrives in spaces where on-the-ground experiences inform policy conversations, ensuring that solutions remain rooted, inclusive, and effective. Her research and community action has been sucessful in bringing executive and judiciary actions at policy front.

Outside of work, she finds comfort in her favorite genres of literature, culinary experiments in the kitchen, and music that soothes and inspires.