Board of Directors

Stephanie Brittain

PRESIDENT

Steph is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, with broad interests in local ecological knowledge and rights-based approaches.

Matthew Selinske

PAST PRESIDENT

Matthew is a postdoctoral fellow in the ICON Science Lab at RMIT University (Australia), with conservation psychology interests.

Lily van Eeden

SECRETARY

Lily is a postdoctoral researcher at Arthur Rylah Institute. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in conservation biology and behavioural psychology.

Sayan
Banerjee

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Sayan is a PhD Scholar at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India and is broadly interested in socio-ecological aspects of human-wildlife interactions.

Kwan-Lamar
Blount-Hill

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Kwan is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University.

Patricia Manzano Fischer

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Patricia is a sustainability scientist with a broad interest in behavioural change interventions for conservation.

Francisco
Gelves-Gómez

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Francisco is Associate Lecturer in Sustainability at the School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania. 

Amit Kaushik

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Amit is an PhD candidate in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology at the University of Georgia (USA), broadly interested in humans-non humans interactions and relationships

Rocío Lopez

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Rocío is a PhD candidate at The University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) with broad interests in people’s relationships with nature and marine social sciences.

Amemarlita Matos

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Amemarlita is a Conservation Practitioner & Researcher, who works with local communities on the issues of livelihood, education, and sustainability. She also teaches at the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Manica.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Tina is a social science researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology studying the intersections of participatory sciences, nature, well-being, and conservation behaviors.

Ans Vercammen

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Ans is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland (Australia). She is interested in the human well-being dimensions of environmental (and particularly, climate) change.