Ala has an editorial team to decide the policy guidelines and manage the blog. The following editors serve at present.
Deepti Sreeram is a second-year PhD student at Ashoka University. Her work looks at quality in relation to higher education.
Renu Susan Jacob is a PhD scholar of Cultural Studies at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She has a background in English Literature. Her current research areas include digital media, gender and life narratives.
S. Harikrishnan is Assistant Professor at School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Research Interests include social spaces, public sphere and Modernity, and political culture. He writes on public space, films, and political culture.
Shilpa Parthan is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She researches transgender politics in Kerala.
Sreedevi D. is Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur. Her areas of interest are literary and cultural theory, sensory studies. She completed her PhD in literature from JNU in September 2016 and has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Calicut, Kerala, and Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga.
Susruthan is a freelance writer, translator, and facilitator. He is currently exploring unlearning journeys/processes through self- and community-based activities.
Archana Ravi is an independent illustrator who occasionally illustrates for Ala. She used to be a writer with various ad agencies and newspapers.
Former Editors:
Aparna Vincent: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. Her research interests are broadly located within normative political theory and interpretative studies in Indian politics.
V. Sriram: Chief Librarian, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Interests include establishing new libraries, library services innovation, ICT, and open access.
Nirmal Roy V.P.: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Dr. Janaki Ammal Campus Thalassery, Kannur University. Interested in development economics.
Sebastian Prange: Assistant Professor, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia. Interest includes medieval Indian Ocean trade (with focus on Malabar).
Zeenab Aneez: Communications specialist with a focus on developing creative approaches to communications and political education at non-profits and social enterprises. Zeenab has previously worked with The Hindu and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.