Fredrick Kioko Kilonzo is a 25-year-old conservation leader from Kenya, and the Founder and Species and Sites Program Manager of NatureHub Collective Community Organisation. Shaped by the ecological wisdom of his community and his…
Maula Nadia is a marine biologist from Indonesia who is actively conducting both research and conservation for elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) through various initiatives. She is a Ph.D. student researching the use of molecular methods for elasmobranch fishery and…
Yamat Lengai is the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Adaptation Officer at African People & Wildlife, where she has worked since 2016. A native of Loibor Soit ‘A’ in northern Tanzania,…
Nicorll Maenzanise, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust. Her role involves supporting evidence-based wildlife conservation research and human-wildlife conflict…
Taylor L. Rabe is a Biological Science Technician with the Yellowstone Wolf, Cougar, and Elk Project and serves as Conservation Nation’s Education and Engagement Facilitator. In 2022, she became Conservation…
Alma "Rosie" Sanchez, a Conservation Nation Fellow, is the Carnivore Biologist for the Nez Perce Tribe and a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies under…
Deepshikha Sharma, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, has always felt inspired by the stories of human resilience and is especially drawn to local stories and movements of community-led conservation.…
Andrea Thomen, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is a conservation biologist and PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in the conservation of endemic Caribbean birds. Her research focuses…
Julee Jerang, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is an Indigenous researcher from the Bori traditional territory in the Siang Basin of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. She is the first from…
Growing up on the island of Fuvahmulah, Hamna Hussain fell in love with the ocean and its apex predators at an early age. Driven by this passion, she became her island’s first female dive instructor, a journey…
Michelle Fournet is a National Geographic Explorer, an assistant research professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire, a behavioral ecologist, and the director of the Sound Science Research Collective.…
Amir Dehbi is a data scientist and applied machine learning researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in audio signal processing and deep learning for acoustic analysis. He applies…
Jessa Marie Caabay is an environmental scientist and marine conservation practitioner serving as Technical Manager of Community Centred Conservation (C3) Philippines. Her work focuses on dugong conservation, seagrass ecosystem protection, and community-based…
Dr. Reem AlMealla is a Bahraini marine ecologist and founder of Nuwat for Environmental Research & Education, Bahrain’s first environmental research and conservation think tank. Her work focuses on marine biodiversity conservation, coral reefs,…
