I specialize in human-wildife relations and conservation in wetland forest ecosystems. A primatologist by training, I am currently a doctoral candidate in Yale University’s anthropology and environmental studies degree program where I study the ecology and conservation of gorillas living in a seasonally flooded community reserve.

Broadly, I am interested in how socio-political and ecological processes intersect to produce place-based conservation outcomes for wildlife and people. I engage methods and theories that draw on work in political ecology, wetland ecology, primatology, human geography, and environmental humanities. My work increasingly centers around principles of knowledge co-production with local and Indigenous communities and, relatedly, the integration of plural value and knowledge systems into environmental policy and governance.

I have been involved in environmental and social research across tropical forest ecosystems as well as in Atlantic Canada and the US. I am from and currently live in Connecticut.