Dr Indrani Lahiri is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Leicester Media School, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University. Her research focuses on digital media, mental health, society and politics. She is also the Founder of Children stories in times of Corona, a digital platform to bring parents, children and schools together to design resilience pathways; and Manav Utsav (Human Festival), to celebrate the South Asian Heritage month in July 2020. Indrani recently joined the Germ's Journey team as the project's Communications Director.