Dr. William Helenbrook, Research Director. His focus is on primate conservation biology, parasitology, and phylogenetics in South America. He is also a lecturer at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF).

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Jessica Suarez, Multi-Media Director. She is a documentary photographer and filmmaker who specializes in non-profit, environmental and editorial storytelling in Latin America and the United States. Through her work she explores people's relationship to the environment, scientific research, wildlife, and wild spaces. 

Lewis Grove, Legal advisor. He recently passed the Vermont Bar Exam and will apply his background to protecting the environment through policy change. He is an avid ornithologist.

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Dr. Ayesha Prasad, Technical advisor. She is a savanna/tropical dry forest ecologist, who is focused on identifying policy and community-based solutions to important ecological and conservation challenges in savanna landscapes. Her research and conservation experience has also included socio-economic issues, such as human-wildlife conflict, ecotourism, and forest resource-dependence by communities adjoining protected areas.
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Kapil Mandrekar, Research Biologist. He is a SUNY ESF graduate student studying fish biology. 



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Jamie Akens, Logistics advisor. He is a project coordinator for a Water Resources Engineering company, and a research associate for the Wright Palaeohydrological Institute studying ancient culture and water systems. His focus is on blending agroforestry and sustainable superfood crops with forest conservation.
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Scott Sveiven, Program Advisor. He has studied conservation biology, wildlife management and environmental policy. He is currenlty involved in research and conservation in Guyana.

Brooke Zale, Grant Writer and Research Advisor. Her background is in disease ecology, molecular diagnostics, and ecological field sampling.

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Dr. Adam Stein, Research advisor. He is a conservationist, evolutionary biologist, and educator. His research has focused on ornithology and herpetology in Central America, East Africa, and the Russian Taiga.