Yusuf is a community-based conservationist working at the grassroots level in East Africa. He has been to Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Tanzania advocating for the same. He specializes in Community-Based Natural Resource Management with an emphasis on wildlife conservation and ecotourism as a means of diversifying the economic resource base of the ruralContinue reading “Yusuf Petenya”
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Scott McCaulou
Scott is a Senior Program Officer at the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) in Bend, Oregon. His work focuses on restoring streamflows in the Deschutes River and its tributaries by implementing market-based, incentive-oriented transactions with irrigation districts and private landowners that reallocate water rights to instream uses. Scott has been with the DRC for six yearsContinue reading “Scott McCaulou”
Katie McCann
Katie McCann serves as a Program Associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She works on some of the Foundation’s environmental grant investigation efforts. A New England native, Katie was born in New York City and grew up in Providence, RI. She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, earning a degree in psychology withContinue reading “Katie McCann”
Javed Kahn
Javed is the country leader of the Snow Leopard Conservation Program Pakistan Chapter, a joint initiative of the International Snow Leopard Trust and WWF-Pakistan. Working undercover, he has learned a great deal about black-market trade routes involving the Snow Leopard and made them public through published reports in collaboration with TRAFFIC. A trained veterinarian andContinue reading “Javed Kahn”
Patrick Holmes
Patrick is program coordinator of the State of the Rockies Project at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated in May 2003 with a degree in Environmental Economics and Policy. As an undergraduate, Patrick was involved with the Colorado College Sustainable Development Workshop and the summer after graduation, he was a research associate atContinue reading “Patrick Holmes”
Stephen Fonzo
Stephen Fonzo is an independent archaeological and historical research consultant currently working in the northern Virginia/Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He specializes in historical and cultural resource management, the study of early American archaeological sites, Geographic Information Systems, social history, and archival research. With degrees in anthropology and geology, Stephen has worked as an archaeologist inContinue reading “Stephen Fonzo”
Aaron Ferguson
Aaron began practicing law in 2011 at the Sacramento based firm of Somach Simmons & Dunn. Aaron’s practice emphasizes water, natural resources, and environmental law, including water rights, water quality regulation, wetlands, endangered species, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), water marketing and reclaimed water use. Prior to joining the firm, Aaron worked for sixContinue reading “Aaron Ferguson”
Nigel Asquith
Nigel Asquith is the Director of Strategy and Policy at the Santa Cruz-based Fundación Natura Bolivia, where since 2003, his team has helped create a new 734,000 hectares protected area and has set up 20 municipal Payments for Environmental Services (PES) water funds, which annually support 1,100 families with $160,000 worth of alternative development projects,Continue reading “Nigel Asquith”
Sergyey Popov
Sergyey Popov is assistant professor and chair of instrumental diagnostic methods at the State Medical Academy in Voronezh, Russia. He is the highest category medical doctor and a medical science candidate whose scientific activities focus on ecology, social hygiene, and diagnostics in medicine. Popov has a keen interest in writing and the environment. He hasContinue reading “Sergyey Popov”
Elika Molayi
Elika was born in Tehran, Iran, and spent her childhood in five different countries – Iran, UAE, India, Tunisia, & the US. This lifestyle shaped many of her beliefs and interests, such as a love for languages, culture, nature, traveling, and art. To keep in line with her interests, she chose to go to McGillContinue reading “Elika Molayi”