Devaki (Andy) Vadakepat Menon is a researcher and PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is a designer for TreeRouted and the author of the Kerala Co-Lab at HeritageLab, which features endangered handicrafts, historical and cultural sites, traditions and ritual performances, and prehistoric heritage. Devaki's research interests include the digitisation and preservation of cultural heritage, material and museum anthropology, indigenous representation in museums, micromuseums, folklore and cosmologies, Paleolithic and Neolithic art and monuments, rituals and sensory experiences, and temple architecture/art.

She has published research on migration, the impact of climate change on indigenous crafts, and heritage preservation. Her PhD focuses on the material culture of Nair tharavads (ancestral homes of the Nair community) in the South Indian state of Kerala, understanding how materiality, animacy, and religious cosmology relate to how ancestral houses are treated in modern Kerala. She is also currently undertaking a project for the reform of colonial-era museums in the state, and is actively engaged in the documentation of endangered traditional and indigenous knowledge.

Devaki holds an MPhil in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford; and a BA in Literature (with double specialisations in Art History, and Anthropology) from New York University.