Bina Thomas Tharakan (aka Elizabeth Thomas Tharakan), archaeologist, children’s author, is the founding member and coordinator of Heritage Walk Trivandrum (HWT). At the time of HWT's launch, Bina was a Special Officer with the Ministry of Culture and in-charge of coordinating activities for nominating two monuments of Kerala into UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a project that ended in 2017. Since 2013, Bina has been organising the heritage walks to discover and showcase interesting facts, location, and monuments that have previously not been documented.