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Anjali Mehta is an illustrator from New Delhi, India. She is primarily known for her graphic shapes, gentle lines, bold colors, and strong female subjects. She is also designing a series titled Enroute Extinction that uses the same bright colors and familiar layout of a postage stamp. This series highlights animal species in India that are at risk of extinction.
Mehta's work was also part of Biodiversity by the Bay's campaign #MakeArtforMumbaisMangroves. This campaign has seen an engagement with over 260K people and counting on Instagram.
Make Art for Mumbai’s Mangroves is a part of a series of dynamic and creative programs conceptualized by the Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic to create a conversation around Mumbai’s rich wetlands and drive citizen action in favor of Mumbai’s rich biodiversity including a fellowship for youth to champion solutions for city’s public parks, a podcast to build a healthy climate discourse in the city, a series of creative tactics that bring attention to Koli community’s role as caretakers of city’s coastline and piloting initiative that creates biodiversity register for hyper-locally by engaging communities to present it to the decision makers.