The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is proud to welcome Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, wildlife ecologist and conservation scientist, as the 2022 Sustaining Our World Speaker.

Dr. Wynn-Grant, who is also a National Geographic Fellow, will present “Ecology, Evolution, & Intersectional Identities: Reimagining Environmental Education,” and a short Q&A will be held after the presentation.

Here are the details:

When: 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, March 10, 2022

Location: In-Person at UW’s Kane Hall Room 110 (Space is limited!), or Virtually on the SEFS YouTube Channel

RSVP: RSVP for Virtual Lecture here
RSVP for In-Person Lecture here (Space is limited!)

Here is an abstract for the lecture: “An overview of Dr. Wynn-Grant’s most notable wildlife ecology research will segue into a personal story of her moment of realization that the greater ecology community was lacking the intersectional perspectives that can best support its scientists. She will then define intersectional environmentalism and give several examples of how her own science research has taken a turn for the better since adopting this lens, as well as detail her most recent forays into scholarship surrounding decolonized conservation and science. She will end with a case study from UCSB focused on reimagining the wildlife extinction crisis in Africa from a decolonized framework and offer tools for students and instructors to conduct similar work.”

Dr. Wynn-Grant is a large carnivore ecologist with an expertise in using field biology, statistics, and mapping, and to investigate how human activity influences carnivore behavior and ecology. Her research is conducted with black bears in the Western Great Basin, grizzly bears in Montana, and African lions in rural Kenya and Tanzania. A native Californian, Dr. Wynn-Grant attributes her interest in wildlife and conservation from the television shows she watched as a child. Dr. Wynn-Grant received her B.S. in Environmental Studies from Emory University, her M.S. in Environmental Studies from Yale University, and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History. She is currently a carnivore ecologist with National Geographic Society. She is a scientist, conservationist, equity and justice advocate, and storyteller.

See the full history of Sustaining Our World Lectures here.